Re: installscript='/usr/bin' !? [Was: Re: HFS+ and directory layout]

2002-01-15 Thread Wilfredo Sanchez
Seems to me like there should be an installsitescript variable. I agree that for user-built perl, it should be /usr/local/bin, not /usr/bin. The last hints file I edited had this fixed, or so was the intent. I think that was in a 5.7-dev version, though. Been a while. I believe tha

Re: installscript='/usr/bin' !? [Was: Re: HFS+ and directory layout]

2002-01-14 Thread Dan Kogai
On 2002.01.14, at 18:39, Ken Williams wrote: > As far as I can tell (which isn't very far, since the Config.pm > documentation is rather terse), /usr/bin is the correct value. I just > checked a couple other perl installations (5.6.0 and 5.005_03, both on > Linux) and they both have 'installsc

Re: installscript='/usr/bin' !? [Was: Re: HFS+ and directory layout]

2002-01-14 Thread Ken Williams
On Sunday, January 13, 2002, at 07:01 PM, Dan Kogai wrote: > On 2002.01.09, at 09:02, Wilfredo Sánchez wrote: >> Perl built into the system uses /usr/bin as installbin. This is the >> correct setting; the system perl does not belong in /usr/local/bin. >> If LWP uses the wrong install path,

installscript='/usr/bin' !? [Was: Re: HFS+ and directory layout]

2002-01-13 Thread Dan Kogai
On 2002.01.09, at 09:02, Wilfredo Sánchez wrote: > Perl built into the system uses /usr/bin as installbin. This is the > correct setting; the system perl does not belong in /usr/local/bin. If > LWP uses the wrong install path, there is nothing I can do about that, > since I don't touch LWP.

Re: HFS+ and directory layout

2002-01-08 Thread Wilfredo Sánchez
On Tuesday, January 8, 2002, at 02:04 AM, Dan Kogai wrote: > When I say easy, it has to be as easy as > > ../Configure -des > make test > make install > > is it *that* easy? It was last time I built Perl. >>> installbindir and installscriptdir should've been /usr/local/bin, not >>> /usr

Re: HFS+ and directory layout

2002-01-08 Thread Ken Williams
On Tuesday, January 8, 2002, at 04:04 AM, Dan Kogai wrote: > on 02.1.8 6:12 PM, Ken Williams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> * perl itself requires UFS to compile because of this >> >> No it doesn't - see the archives of this list for directions for >> compiling on HFS+. It's pretty easy. > >

Re: HFS+ and directory layout

2002-01-08 Thread Dan Kogai
on 02.1.8 6:12 PM, Ken Williams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> * perl itself requires UFS to compile because of this > > No it doesn't - see the archives of this list for directions for > compiling on HFS+. It's pretty easy. When I say easy, it has to be as easy as ../Configure -des make tes

Re: HFS+ and directory layout

2002-01-08 Thread Ken Williams
On Monday, January 7, 2002, at 01:12 PM, Dan Kogai wrote: > Maybe. this case-preserving, yet case-insensitive nature of HFS(+) > sometimes bites you when you are used to ffs and its variants > (including UFS). > > * perl itself requires UFS to compile because of this No it doesn't - see the a

HFS+ and directory layout

2002-01-07 Thread Dan Kogai
On Tuesday, December 25, 2001, at 03:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The second part was changing every occurrence of > 'parrot' to 'test_prog' in every Test.pm file > that is part of the test suites. This is what I > was missing. Now my Parrot 0.0.3 installation works. Yow, that's not fun.