Although I've been using perl for "a long time now", I've never messed with MakeMaker, so I may be off base here, but I think I've found two problems in MM_Unix.pm while trying to build a RequestTracker add-in via Module::Install::RTx.
They're in the nature of consistency problems. The first is that the definition of UNINSTALL differs from MOD_INSTALL, in that MOD_INSTALL handles arguments via ARGV, while UNINSTALL does not. This can be a problem because when the UNINSTALL macro is used (e.g. uninstall_from_sitedirs) an argument is passed, which is then ignored. Since Module::Install::RTx writes the packlist to a different place than the normal site dir, the uninstall command fails to print the list of files to be removed. The second problem is related. The install commands read the packlist from the base directory (e.g. $(SITEARCHEXP) ), but write the new packlist to the destination directory (e.g. $(DESTINSTALLSITEARCH) ). The uninstall commands pass the base directory, not the dest directory. So, even if the first problem was fixed, uninstall would still be trying to read the packlist from the wrong place (in my case /opt/rt3/local/lib/auto/RTx/Statistics/.packlist would be the right place, and DESTINSTALLSITEARCH is set to /opt/rt3/local/lib). Maybe I'm missing something, but these seem like actual problems, as opposed to my doing something wrong. On the face of it, they seem pretty simple to fix (I'm happy to provide a diff in your preferred format if you like), but there may be deeper ramifications to making such change. Thanks, -- Kelly F. Hickel Senior Software Architect MQSoftware, Inc 952.345.8677 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
