On Dec 16, Michael Schwern wrote:
> [From the Why Am I Not Surprised Dept.]
>
> Writing tests for 'make install', the test does:
>
> perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=dummy-install
> make test
> make install
>
> Check ./dummy-install/... directories but no modules.
>
> Turns out that due to some funny chdiring, ExtUtils::Install does not work
> with relative directories, it winds up installing into blib/lib. A problem
> from waaaay back before 5.4.0. Yet most of the PREFIX examples show
> something like PREFIX=foo.
>
> *sigh*
I suggest changing the examples. I use PREFIX all the time, and
it's never been a hardship for me to use absolute paths.
- Kurt
