[Module-build-general] Re: About Module-Build

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

On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 04:06  AM, Mathieu Arnold wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I use FreeBSD, and I have a lot of perl ports. I needed a module which  
> used
> Module::Build to build, and I was displeased to see that I could not
> override PREFIX easily. We usually do this :
> make install PREFIX=/something
> so that instead of going into /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/<perl
> version>/, it goes into /something/lib/perl5/site_perl/<perl version>/
> It's a really important feature for the FreeBSD ports, and believe you
> should know your module well enough to correct this :)
>

Hi Mathieu,

Thanks for your message.  You probably actually want to use the  
'destdir' parameter, which was created specifically to aid package  
managers.  Recent versions of MakeMaker have a DESTDIR parameter now  
too, which does basically the same thing as in Module::Build.

Aside from that, the directory customization in released version of  
Module::Build is not very good.  It's the top priority for version  
0.19, and it's coming along well.  You can see the current direction at
    
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/ 
forum.php?thread_id=2686103&forum_id=10905 .

Thanks.

  -Ken