At 10:08 -0500 2001.04.18, Ken Williams wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Dalgleish) wrote:
>>Hence, we should (by "we", I mean "not me", but someone else) ask Gisle Aas
>>to change the standard installation point to refer to /usr/local/bin,
>
>Yeah - but I think it must be the fault of CPAN.pm, or of the
>/System/Library/Perl/darwin/Config.pm that Apple provided. It contains
>lines like
>
> bin='/usr/bin'
> binexp='/usr/bin'
> installbin='/usr/bin'
These are the important ones.
>From Porting/Glossary:
bin (bin.U):
This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
to put publicly executable images for the package in question. It
is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
binexp (bin.U):
This is the same as the bin variable, but is filename expanded at
configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
installbin (bin.U):
This variable is the same as binexp unless AFS is running in which case
the user is explicitely prompted for it. This variable should always
be used in your makefiles for maximum portability.
Essentially, if LWP is using installbin as the location, then that is the
Right Thing. These should be /usr/local/bin/.
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