Re: [ID 20000129.001] MakeMaker: PREFIX= doesn't set INSTALLSITELIB

[Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Simon Cozens wrote:

> >So your perl was NOT configured with prefix=/usr/local. 
> 
> >All PREFIX=
> >does is substitution of prefix= given on perl's Configure command line with
> >the value given to MakeMaker.
> 
> >> @INC for perl 5.00561:

Beware that the default site* entries @INC for _61 are *wrong*.  There was
a Configure bug that forgot to include the 'perl5' part of the filename.
I don't know whether this is relevant to the current discussion or not,
but please do tests on _63, which has the Configure bug squashed, or else
fix it yourself in _61 and use /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl.


> At any rate, there is *something* here which is stopping real users out
> there, now, from installing modules in directories of their choice.
> 
> Whatever it is, it would be real friendly if the answer given in the FAQ
> actually worked.

This also needs revisiting to properly use the new siteman1dir and
siteman3dir man page directories (and the scripts and binaries
directories).

That's on the ToDo list for 5.6, currently awaiting a public champion.

    Andy Dougherty		doughera@lafayette.edu
    Dept. of Physics
    Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042

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References to:

simon@brecon.co.uk (Simon Cozens)

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