On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 09:16:25AM -0800, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > > It seems to be a Debian/Ubuntu thing. One would have to look at their > policy manual to understand it more deeply (I don't at this point.) It > does look like the debs are installed in the /usr/lib/perl5/ path > (regardless of whether they are XS, but that makes sense because > they'll get upgraded with the perl deb.)
I'm installing with cpan shell. > >Assuming my modules are "forward compatible" as a module author is > >there anything I can do in Makefile.PL to have my module installed in > >a location that does not have the version number? > > No. The code gets installed in installsitelib or installsitearch per > the machine's Config.pm (and subject to user settings in CPAN(PLUS) or > Makefile.PL/Build.PL arguments.) $ perl -MConfig -le 'print Config::config_sh()' | egrep '(installsitelib|installsitearch)' installsitearch='/usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0' installsitelib='/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0' On Gentoo: $ perl -MConfig -le 'print Config::config_sh()' | egrep '(installsitelib|installsitearch)' installsitearch='/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi' installsitelib='/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8' > The user could opt to change that on their machine, but there is > presumably a reason for Debian's choices in how this has been setup -- > so reading-up on that seems like the next step to me. Ok. Thanks, -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent from my iMutt
