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has caused the Debian Bug report #87674,
regarding MM_Unix modifications have a strange notion of what PREFIX means
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Package: perl
Version: 5.6.0-19
Severity: important
Hi,
Specifying the PREFIX variable to Makefile.PL on Debian no longer does
anything remotely like what one would expect it to, because it insists
on appending 'local' to whatever PREFIX you give it.
For example if I run:
$ perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~
In fact, everything ends up getting installed under ~/local/. This is
IMHO very wrong: PREFIX does not ever behave this way in any other
build/installation system. It also breaks things for people who would
like to install modules in their home directory or maintain a separate
tree of modules (for development, testing, whatever). Not everybody
is their own system administrator, you know...
I assume that this misfeature was introduced in the following revision:
perl (5.6.0-13) unstable; urgency=low
* Modify MM_Unix yet again to install programs and manual pages
under /usr/local for site installs.
-- Brendan O'Dea <[email protected]> Sun, 4 Feb 2001 23:46:29 +1100
It appears that the path munging extends to INSTALLBIN,
INSTALLMAN3DIR, and other INSTALL* variables, but not to LIB,
thankfully, so at least I can make my modules end up where I want
them, even if manual pages and executables won't.
Nowhere is it documented how to get around this. I consider this an
important bug because it breaks many users' expectations of being able
to install things in the place they tell MakeMaker to install them.
(granted, MakeMaker does a lot of evil magic even in its unmolested
state, but this is too much).
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Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> I cannot reproduce this bug with current perl in Debian sid (.e.g no 'local/'
> got appended to install paths). Can you confirm?
>
The bug submitter's mail address is unreachable. Closing the bug.
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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer
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