Re: [Module-build-general] 4th (undocumented) argument to ExtUtils::Install::install

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 10:46  AM, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Ken Williams wrote:
>
>>> It'll only unlink a shadowing file _if and only if_ it is installing 
>>> a
>>> new
>>> file.  So if you just run "./Build install uninst=1" and nothing has
>>> changed, then nothing gets unlinked.
>>>
>>> I don't know if this is correct, but that's the deal ;)
>>
>> Yeah, but in my case that's what was happening, and it still didn't
>> unlink 'em.
>
> Are you really sure?  On my system, I copied
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0/Module/Build/Base.pm to
> /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/Module/Build/Base.pm
>
> If I then changed Base.pm and did "./Build install uninst=1" it worked
> fine.


Well, it looks like my ExtUtils::Install is broken.  I just did the 
same thing under MakeMaker and it didn't work there either.  I've got 
version 1.31 of EU::I installed, which is the same as what's in the 
EU::MM CVS repository right now.


  -Ken