RE: [Slashcode-general] Probs w/ Install RH 6.2 and 7.0

[Nathan V. <na...@th...>]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Chris Nandor wrote:

> I think what happened is that we didn't think through this well enough.
> Part of it may be that one or all of us are not very clued on Makefiles.
> At least, I know I am not.  To the point: we use PREFIX to say where to
> install the slash directory, normally set to /usr/local/slash/.  Perl uses
> PREFIX to say where to install the modules.  Apparently, the PREFIX gets
> passed down to the Perl Makefiles (duh, I suppose).  Solution: I think we
> should use something other than PREFIX for /usr/local/slash.

This would explain and confirm a weird problem I had too, with all the
bender perl modules being installed in /usr/local/slash/lib/perl5 .  I
moved the files into the right places by hand, assuming I had bungled
something.