On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:45:19AM -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> Obviously, failing to find a freshly-installed module is bad. However,
> I'd want to see a precise demonstration of exactly what went wrong before
> coming to any conclusion.
Glad you asked. Quite by accident, I may have run into the upstream
issue that caused my downstream problem from a month ago. Here's
what I did:
1) Built & installed a fresh perl5.8.0. I used the following
Configure on hpux11.00 (nonstandard noise is due to
DBD::Oracle considerations):
Configure -d -Dprefix=$HOME/perltest/ \
-A prepend:libswanted='cl pthread ' -A prepend:ccflags='+z '
I should note that lib/ExtUtils/t/Installed.t fails one test
(line 161) because it assumes $Config{man1direxp} exists (which
in my case is set to $HOME/perltest/man1dir). Maybe
$Config{man1direxp} shouldn't be set to a non-existent dir, or
maybe Installed.t shouldn't assume a value is an actually a dir,
but either way it's irrelevant to makemaker issue at hand. I
went ahead with the install anyway.
2) Tweaked .profile to put $HOME/perltest/bin at head of PATH, then
logged in again
3) Ran "perl -V" and saw the following INC:
@INC:
/home/jdl/perltest//lib/5.8.0/PA-RISC2.0
/home/jdl/perltest//lib/5.8.0
/home/jdl/perltest//lib/site_perl/5.8.0/PA-RISC2.0
/home/jdl/perltest//lib/site_perl/5.8.0
/home/jdl/perltest//lib/site_perl
.
4) Built & installed DBI-1.30. Here's where an issue occurs: if I
perl Makefile.PL
things work great: it installs into
$HOME/perltest/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/PA-RISC2.0/
and perl is quite happy to find it. However, if I
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$HOME/perltest
then it installs into
$HOME/perltest/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/PA-RISC2.0/
Note the addition of "perl5". Also note that the same prefix is
used here as was on the build of perl. That's the "accident"
I mentioned: today, I forgot to specify the PREFIX that I
specified a month ago.
So, it seems the issue is that MakeMaker is adding "perl5" to DBI's
INSTALL settings. Instead of the previously submitted patch, should
I be submitting a patch for that issue?
I'm unsure, so I'll wait to get your impressions first before
throwing any cycles at it...
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