Hi,
I just subscribed to this list. I'm the maintainer of the Geo::GDAL
module in CPAN. I just added to its README this:
The Perl bindings use ExtUtils::MakeMaker, which accepts (from version
6.31) argument INSTALL_BASE to change where the module will be installed.
GNUmakefile in this directory calls
perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=$(INST_PREFIX)
to honor the overall location where GDAL is to be installed.
It seems that plain "perl Makefile.PL" is different from "perl
Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=/usr/local" in that the former will install
into /usr/local/lib/perl and the latter will install into
/usr/local/lib/perl5. It may easily lead to several versions of
Geo::GDAL in your machine.
So, why the difference? I've been bitten by this many times but only now
did look into this.
Best,
Ari Jolma
