On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, John Peacock wrote:
> I would like to build Perl 5.6.1 with the defaults, except that I would
> like to override PERL_ROOT. I tried the obviously wrong invocation:
>
> @Configure "-d" "-DPERL_ROOT=DRA0:[PERL5]"
>
> which is the PERL_ROOT I am currently using. This still wants to
> install in the current directory. I looked through CONFIGURE.COM, but
> I am not a DCL person. I cannot see where it should be getting this
> information from; should I just edit CONFIG.SH once I have generated it?
Try this instead (note the period):
@Configure "-d" "-Dprefix=DRA0:[PERL5.]"
Configure.com is intended to work as closely as possible in analogy with
the way the Bourne shell Configure script works. On Unix you might have
specified:
sh Configure -d -Dprefix=/opt/perl/perl5
or somesuch. On VMS you only need bother with the addition of "double
quotation marks" and VMS:[STYLE.PATHS].
> John Peacock
>
> p.s. Yes, I know I could just step through the install and hit returns
> appropriately, but it seems silly that I cannot use the override
You can - please let use know how we might document things a bit better.
Thank you.
Peter Prymmer
