Le Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 05:12:56PM -0400, Roderick Schertler écrivait: > The problem isn't the amount of work it takes to add one line to a rules > file, it's that there's one more thing which has to be done for every > module, and one more thing which can be done wrong. There's a choice > between making this change once (when the Perl package is built) and > making it dozens of times (when the module packages are built).
All packages does already have to be corrected in order to follow the new perl policy. This is a one-time change. You won't have to do it more than one time. > I think it'd be useful to take this a step further. Right now at a > minimum a rules file has to say > > $(MAKE) \ > PREFIX=$(prefix)/usr \ > INSTALLPRIVLIB=$(prefix)/usr/lib/perl5 \ > INSTALLMAN1DIR=$(prefix)/usr/man/man1 \ > INSTALLMAN3DIR=$(prefix)/usr/man/man3 \ > pure_perl_install That's not enough for a binary perl module. Furthermore using PREFIX can have some strange results when used in conjunction with complete path given to INSTALL*DIR. The recommended way of doing is described in the perl policy. You really can't do it wrong if you're paying attention to what you do. > in order to do the right thing with all modules. That's too much > boilerplate. I suggest it would be useful to have a way to, say, pass > an extra arg on the Makefile.PL line which would take care of most of > this, perhaps leaving only the prefix to bet set in the rules file. Using the prefix only is NOT enough. Otherwise do you really think we would have used explicit INSTALLMAN1DIR for ages ? > In a similar vein, the Perl policy suggests you compile with > > make CFLAGS="-O2 -g -Wall" This is from debian-policy ... > That should also not be necessary, the defaults should be whatever is > correct. The perl policy is not a law. You respect it or not. You do whatever you want with your packages ... > I don't follow you here. Could you elaborate? Where is this calculation > happening? Somewhere in the ExtUtils module. I don't know exactly where but I ran into trouble one day because of this. If you set only INSTALLPRIVLIB without setting INSTALLARCHLIB on the command line, the resulting INSTALLARCHLIB will be $INSTALLPRIVLIB/$arch-linux ... Concerning changing Config.pm, Darren will do whatever he thinks it's the best. It really doesn't matter as the official way of building perl module is to explicitely specify where things get installed. This way you /always/ know what happens. BTW, with the FHS beeing officially adopted, one day I'll have to change the INSTALLMANXDIR to point to /usr/share/man/manX ... Cheers, -- Hertzog Raphaël >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/
