On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 08:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please keep CC,
I'm trying to package grepmail (SF project) as Cygwin Net release and to do that I need to instruct MakeMaker to install under separate directory, but just like as it would normally.
$ perl Makefile.PL $ grep -i prefix Makefile
PREFIX = /usr SITEPREFIX = /usr VENDORPREFIX =
That installs fine as system wide, but not if I do this with grepmail:
$ perl Makefile.PL FASTREADER=0 INSTALLDIRS=perl PREFIX=.inst/usr $ grep -i prefix Makefile
PREFIX = .inst/usr SITEPREFIX = .inst/usr VENDORPREFIX = .inst/usr
It smells to me like you should really be setting DESTDIR=.inst instead of PREFIX=.inst/usr .
-Ken