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

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

On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 11:19  PM, Ken Williams wrote:

>
> On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 08:48  PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Ken Williams wrote:
>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> I have 1.30.  That may explain it.
>
> Either that, or it's allergic to me.  On a different machine with 
> EU::I 1.28, I get sporadic behavior.  Note the 'ls' at the end of this 
> indicating at least one shadow file that should have been removed, but 
> only a couple of shadows were actually removed.

I figured out what was happening.  ExtUtils::Install only tells you 
about the shadow files that are actually *different*, so it can still 
leave a lot of duplicate files around on your system if you install 
first in one place and then in another.

  -Ken