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

[Mathieu A. <m...@ab...>]

+-le 01/07/2003 07:40 -0500, Ken Williams =E9crivait :
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| On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 04:06  AM, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
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|> Hi,
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|> I use FreeBSD, and I have a lot of perl ports. I needed a module which =20
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|> Module::Build to build, and I was displeased to see that I could not
|> override PREFIX easily. We usually do this :
|> make install PREFIX=3D/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 :)
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| Hi Mathieu,
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| 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.
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| 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
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http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3D2686103&forum_id=3D=
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| 0905 .

I do not know, but it would be very good that using :
perl PREFIX=3D.... Makefile.PL
does indeed work.
It would have the FreeBSD's port work out of the box, without needs to add
another hack.

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Mathieu Arnold