Re: INSTALLSCRIPT doesn't have 'site', 'vendor' values?

[Ken Williams]

On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 12:37  PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:54:22PM +1100, Ken Williams wrote:

I'm curious about why INST_SCRIPT doesn't have different values in the
three columns.  Is this why things like LWP's "HEAD" script are
installing to /usr/bin on OS X instead of to /usr/local/bin?

Config.pm has installbin, installsitebin and installvendorbin but only
installscript. Dunno why. There's no reason INSTALLSITESCRIPT and
INSTALLVENDORSCRIPT couldn't be figured out like the other variables that
aren't in Config.pm are.

Honestly, I was just sick of the whole PREFIX problem and decided to leave
it as is. I'll welcome a patch.

Okay. I'll wait a week or so for someone like Andreas or Andy to chime in and explain why there are no other INSTALL*SCRIPT entries, and if that doesn't happen I'll assume it's an error and I'll try to fix it.

Would it be wrong to just put scripts into INSTALL*BIN? Do we really need to make a big distinction between executable binaries and executable scripts? I'm ignorant of the important issues, but if we could just use INSTALL*BIN it wouldn't require patching Config.pm and all the stuff that generates it in the perl core.

-Ken