On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Kevin Bailey
<kbai...@freewayprojects.com>wrote:
> On 17/10/12 06:41, Chris Travers wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Kevin Bailey <
> kbai...@freewayprojects.com> wrote:
>
>> How do I run the makefile code?
>>
>> Should it be run as root?
>>
>> Should I cd into the base directory of the LS files first?
>>
>
> Probably best to run it as root since it means installing the
> dependencies.
>
> Also it is best to avoid "make install" for 1.3, since it means running
> make install on every minor upgrade. In trunk (1.4), make install is
> supported for some types of installations.
>
> But the INSTALL file which comes with this 1.3 file says to run:
>
> $ perl
> Makefile.PL
>
> $ make install
>
> So what do you mean - probably best not to run "make install"?
>
This probably gets chalked up to a preferences thing, and I suppose in some
installations it's the best move.
What make install does is copy the man pages extracted from POD and the
Perl modules to system-appropriate directories. If this is done on every
minor update, then this is no problem and it offers the advantage of being
able to do things like man LedgerSMB::Form.
On the other hand, the reason for my preference is that by copying the Perl
modules, sometimes people forget to run make install on the next time and
it doesn't go to the new version on the Perl modules because the old
modules are the ones that get run. Again, not a big deal. Just one of
those things that can impact some deployments, and I personally think that
make install on 1.3 causes more problems than it solves.
To be safe I am committing a patch to INSTALL to correct that.
Hope this helps,
Chris Travers
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