Branko Čibej wrote: > Julian Foad wrote: >> Just an additional thought: is there a way to pass all the relevant options >> at once to the subordinate 'Makefile.PL', instead of just passing this >> one particular option? For example, GNU Make puts its flags and variables >> defined on the command line into the environment variable 'MAKEFLAGS' >> and a subordinate 'make' process inherits the same definitions by >> reading them from this variable. > > But this is not a subordinate make process. Makefile.PL is a Perl script > ... not confusing at all.
Ah, thanks. I realized it was a Perl script; I hadn't realized its purpose was *making* a Makefile rather than *being* a Makefile. > $(SWIG_PL_DIR)/native/Makefile: $(SWIG_PL_DIR)/native/Makefile.PL > - cd $(SWIG_PL_DIR)/native; $(PERL) Makefile.PL > + cd $(SWIG_PL_DIR)/native; $(PERL) Makefile.PL PREFIX=$(prefix) So the OP's suggestion sounds like the right sort of fix. (Another observation: Looking at the documentation of MakeMaker [1], I notice that as well as PREFIX, an alternative 'INSTALL_BASE' is documented as 'more like what everyone else calls "prefix" than PREFIX is.') - Julian [1] http://perldoc.perl.org/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.html#INSTALL_BASE
