On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:54:18PM +1100, Ken Williams wrote: > It sounds like the kind of thing someone's going to be using somewhere, > so it probably shouldn't get completely broken.
The two likely candidates are AFS users, who routinely shuffle files around all over the place and use obscure features of MM, and module repackagers (ie. Redhat, Debian, etc...) who need to seperate out architecture dependent vs independent bits. > If I were to fix this, I think there would be a few parts to it: > > 1) MakeMaker should try to determine a better place to put scripts (by > guessing) Should be possible using the same tricks as the other iffy variables in init_INSTALL(). > 2) EU::Install should honor that It'll do that automaticly. It doesn't know anything about the INSTALL* variables, it just gets fed paths. ExtUtils::Install is really just a glorified copy command like GNU install. > 3) Config.pm should have INSTALLSITESCRIPT and INSTALLVENDORSCRIPT > entries so MM doesn't have to guess We'll still have to guess for all older versions, so no code savings there. :( > In practice, I don't think any 'hints' files (in 5.8, anyway) have > INSTALLBIN and INSTALLSCRIPT different, so it's probably pretty safe to > guess from INSTALL*BIN, I think. > > Then I have to figure out how to cooperate/repeat with Module::Build. -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One You see, in this world there's two kinds of people. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. Dig. -- Blondie, "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly"
