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

[Mathieu A. <ma...@ma...>]

+-Le 03/07/2003 15:38 -0500, Ken Williams =E9crivait :
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| I understand your point, but compatibility with the PREFIX setting in
| MakeMaker is not going to happen in Module::Build, at least not anytime
| soon.  The PREFIX behavior is mis-designed and often leads to people
| installing things in places they didn't intend to install them.  The
| redesigned behavior of Module::Build is simpler, more flexible, and
| safer.  If we can find a way to bolt on a backwards-compatibility layer
| for PREFIX that could be a good thing, but it will still be broken in
| the same way PREFIX has always been broken, and I'm not inclined to
| pursue it very aggressively for that reason.
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| If I can help you solve your specific problem in another way though,
| don't hesitate to ask here.  Better cooperation with packaging systems
| is a major goal of Module::Build.

Well, I do agree that PREFIX was a bit broken, but it's really useful, say,
you want to make a new package, it's really easier to make install
PREFIX=3D/var/tmp/something so that it gets there, and so that it's easier =
to
find witch files are installed :)
I guess if I'm right, I should do a
perl ./Build.PL destdir=3D/var/tmp/something
and after,
perl ./Build install
would work out of the box for me, right ?
I'm wondering because as I add perl modules to the FreeBSD ports tree, more
and more use Module::Build, and we really need some knob to have them
respect PREFIX :)
If it means adding a second way of doing perl packages, I guess we'll do =
it.

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Mathieu Arnold