Re: [Module-build-general] Proposal for Module::Build installation dirs

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

On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 10:29  AM, Jeff Macdonald wrote:
> Ack, builddir should of been destdir and when I rerun the compile
> destdir does what it should do.

Good.

> It also turns out it's not what I want.

destdir is mostly useful for package managers, it's not generally 
useful for installing into a private location like ~/lib .


> It seems I want sitelib (but maybe I'm mis-understanding what sitelib
> is):
>
> From the README:
>
>
> Alternatively, you could specify the "sitelib" parameter when you run
> the "Build.PL" script:
>
>          perl Build.PL sitelib=/my/secret/place/

Ack, sorry - that part of the documentation has been wrong for several 
releases now.  It'll get fixed for the next release.


>> Incidentally, Module::Build already lets you install to whatever
>> directory you want, it's just not pretty:
>>
>>   perl Build.PL config='siteperl=/foo/bar sitearch=/foo/bar/i386-linux
>> installscript=/foo/bar/bin'
>
> Yes, it's butt ugly and requires me to know about %Config and
> what my archname is.

Yup.  And I guess I shouldn't comment on this technique anymore, since 
it's now "the old way", and won't even necessarily work with version 
0.19 once we get something better figured out.


> I guess just setting sitelib isn't enough or
> doesn't do what I thought it would do. Here's some output of Build,
> I apologize for long lines below. I realize that it pass the tests
> but it does issue warnings and it also shows the @INC problem and
> it trying to install into a directory it doesn't have permission to.
> Let me know how I can help (I'm about to try that patch you just sent 
> out):

I'm hopeful that the patch will fix the warnings about B::Module::Info, 
by fixing the @INC problem.  The permission warnings are of course 
because it's not paying attention to where you told it to install, 
which is a separate issue and what we'll have to hash out here.

  -Ken