On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 09:48:15PM -0500, Kurt Starsinic wrote: > On Mar 30, Michael Schwern wrote: > > I just read https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=1991 > > > > Basically, when Makefile.PLs in subdirectories are run @ARGV from the parent > > Makefile.PL is propagated but deliberately ignored. It appears to have > > always been this way. What I'm trying to figure out is why? > > > > Anyone know? > > I don't quite get it. I just made a stub Makefile.PL thus:
Try your setup and then: perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=foo. Look at the Makefile generated in the subdir and the value of PREFIX in it. It will not be foo. -- I know you get this a lot, but you're breathtaking, like a vision of simplicity
