Mike, Thanks, I'll try these out a bit!
-- maarten On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:37:38PM +0200, Maarten Thibaut wrote: > > You can see that the makefile generation depends on selecting the right > > $PERL and $FULLPERL. I've been trying to at least automate this part by > > writing a MY::find_perl, sticking this somewhere in my home directory and > > try to get perl to find this find_perl instead of the one in MM_Unix. I > > found another way: copying and editing MM_Unix.pm directly (fixing > > find_perl) and setting PERL5LIB. Not very clean. Is there a better way? > > MakeMaker will use whatever perl you run the Makefile.PL with, it only has > to guess if the path to Perl is not absolute. If you run Makefile.PL > with a full path MakeMaker won't have to guess. > > /full/path/to/your/perl Makefile.PL > > > > The other one is much more difficult to do. Our perl installation ends up > > with a Config.pm that has entries like this: > > > > installprivlib='/opt/local/stow/perl-5.8.0/lib/perl5/5.8.0' > > > > We need to put every module in its own install path, something like: > > > > /opt/local/sun4u-5.8/stow/cpan$VERSION.$MODULENAME/lib/perl5/5.8.0 > > > > So we end up doing a s/ regex to change all of those paths. > > You can set those paths by using INSTALLSITELIB, INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR, etc... > > perl Makefile.PL > INSTALLSITELIB=/opt/local/sun4u-5.8/stow/cpan$VERSION.$MODULENAME/lib/perl5/5.8.0 > > Though for something like stow which does the "install a module in X but > run it from Y" trick you'd be better off using DESTDIR. Stow should > have documentation on how to build with systems that have a destdir > concept. > > perl Makefile.PL > DESTDIR=/opt/local/sun4u-5.8/stow/cpan$VERSION.$MODULENAME > INSTALLSITELIB=/path/to/where/stow/will/symlink/to > > > See the "make install" section of the ExtUtils::MakeMaker documentation for > details on all the INSTALL* variables. > > > Also note that upgrade versions of MakeMaker are available on CPAN so that > you don't have to fight different bugs in different versions. > > > -- > Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern > Ahh email, my old friend. Do you know that revenge is a dish that is best > served cold? And it is very cold on the Internet! >
