On Tuesday, January 8, 2002, at 02:04 AM, Dan Kogai wrote:
> When I say easy, it has to be as easy as
>
> ../Configure -des
> make test
> make install
>
> is it *that* easy?
It was last time I built Perl.
>>> installbindir and installscriptdir should've been /usr/local/bin, not
>>> /usr/bin.
>>
>> Probably so, but shouldn't LWP be using 'installsitebin' instead of
>> 'installbin' anyway? Seems like there's joint blame here.
>
> I partly agree with that. But LWP is just tip of the iceburg.
> Consider
> an average user. I think they would hit nothing but return keys when
> configuring CPAN.pm (except for download site selection, of course).
> The
> layout should be set so that it keeps from "rogue" modules form
> clobbering
> the original system.
Perl built into the system uses /usr/bin as installbin. This is the
correct setting; the system perl does not belong in /usr/local/bin. If
LWP uses the wrong install path, there is nothing I can do about that,
since I don't touch LWP. The same is true for the rest of the iceberg.
You should complain to the LWP maintainers. And maybe mention that HEAD
may be a poor naming choice for a command that regularly gets put onto a
Unix system.
-Fred
