The whole argument about attempting to enforce individual platform
standards should be rendered moot if the new PREFIX algorithm works.
Keep in mind, the hard coded directory structure is a *fall back* if
the intellegent guesses fail.
I've just hit a small snag. On the left is your typical Debian system
installation (which is sufficiently odd enough to be non-trivial). On
the right is the result under the proposed PREFIX algorithm.
Config system local
installprefix /usr $PREFIX
installbin /usr/bin $PREFIX/bin
installman1dir /usr/share/man/man1 $PREFIX/share/man/man1
installman3dir /usr/share/man/man3 $PREFIX/share/man/man3
installscript /usr/bin $PREFIX/bin
installarchlib /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 $PREFIX/lib/perl/5.6.1
installprivlib /usr/share/perl/5.6.1 $PREFIX/share/perl/5.6.1
installsitearch /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 $PREFIX/local/lib/perl/5.6.1
installsitebin /usr/local/bin $PREFIX/local/bin
installsitelib /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 $PREFIX/local/share/perl/5.6.1
we're all ok until we hit installsite*. It effectively has a
different prefix. And it does! siteprefix, which I've never noticed
before. So if we slightly alter the algorithm to apply siteprefix to
the installsite* variables:
Config system local
installprefix /usr $PREFIX
siteprefx /usr/local $PREFIX
installbin /usr/bin $PREFIX/bin
installman1dir /usr/share/man/man1 $PREFIX/share/man/man1
installman3dir /usr/share/man/man3 $PREFIX/share/man/man3
installscript /usr/bin $PREFIX/bin
installarchlib /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 $PREFIX/lib/perl/5.6.1
installprivlib /usr/share/perl/5.6.1 $PREFIX/share/perl/5.6.1
installsitearch /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 $PREFIX/lib/perl/5.6.1
installsitebin /usr/local/bin $PREFIX/bin
installsitelib /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 $PREFIX/share/perl/5.6.1
I think that's pretty good.
MakeMaker currently ignores 'siteprefix'. It also ignores other
potentially useful things like 'installstyle', which I'm still
figuring out what its for.
And then there's the installvendor* set which the Debian folks find so
useful but MakeMaker also ignores. There's a Debian patch for it,
I'll examine it closely to see how it can be worked in.
--
Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One
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