Re: [Module-build-general] Re: Help with Debian package of Module::Build

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

On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 12:51  PM, sc...@po... wrote:
> When building a package, one should build the software with the paths
> from which it will ultimately run, not where it will initially be 
> installed.
> So doing the above might cause some problems down the road.

Yeah, good point.


> MakeMaker 6.06 added a DESTDIR macro, inspired by the GNU make standard
> targets (http://www.gnu.org/manual/make/html_node/make_127.html).  This
> allows a package builder to build a package normally, but install it
> into a different directory root for packaging.

So 'destdir' is the/a standard name for this?


> Internally, install_map would do something like:
>
> sub install_map {
>   my ($self, $blib) = @_;
>   my $lib  = File::Spec->catfile($blib,'lib');
>   my $arch = File::Spec->catfile($blib,'arch');
>   my $inst_lib  = $self->{config}{sitelib};
>   my $inst_arch = $self->{config}{sitearch};
>   my $destdir   = $self->{properties}{destdir} || '';
>
>   if( length $destdir ) {
>       $inst_lib  = File::Spec->catfile($destdir, $inst_lib);
>       $inst_arch = File::Spec->catfile($destdir, $inst_arch);
>   }
>
>   return {$lib  => $inst_lib,
>           $arch => $inst_arch,
>           read  => ''};  # To keep ExtUtils::Install quiet
> }

Looks good to me.  I'll apply it.

  -Ken