On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Robert James Clay <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 02:44 -0400, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Philippe Clérié wrote: >> > Speaking of which, why aren't we using perl Makefile.PL ? It's a Perl >> > program, and the command is used for the generic install? >> >> I can't answer your question as I have not worked on packaging ledger-smb >> but I would not wait for the answer to go ahead and use it if it works. >> >> dh(1) will even pick it up automatically. > > Since changing debian/rules over to using dh, I've again attempted > to use that more and I think the issue is that the install target for > the generated Makefile doesn't actually install all of the necessary > files. Like the various *.pl files in the top level source directory, > which I think are assumed to be staying where they are, and/or manually > installed where the admin wants them to run from. (The RPM spec file > does not use it, & also installs to /usr/share/ledgersmb for those types > of files.) > make install in fact does copy all files but unfortunately does to to $ENV{PERLLIB} which is not what you want for the .pl files (or indeed for other files if you ant to run multiple version side-by-side). In general I do not recommend make install as a means of installation but if you only run one version of LedgerSMB and you run it on every version no real harm is done.
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