From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: install does not obey DESTDIR or --prefix for perl modules Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:29:02 -0700 Message-ID: <7vk4zrt035.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20090921160551.GD8173@gryning.com> <7vskeguqmb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20090921191943.GE8173@gryning.com> <7vocp4ulq2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20090922113151.GO8173@gryning.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: c@gryning.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: Brandon Casey X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 22 18:29:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mq8Ez-00051p-4y for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:29:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932355AbZIVQ3L (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:29:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932346AbZIVQ3L (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:29:11 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:54899 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756939AbZIVQ3K (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:29:10 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B5D5B14B; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:29:11 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=PcIeBXbDR0TedJbK6rL53SfhPhc=; b=JPrT63 OzA8LFWC1fS7zDf/1fmhIQPC/4wUcqt2JsBUZQvjDDdf6l3G/+C42XiusSrrhgNF iQVV/wqu+ETNuaKmjy0rGpAbNdnn3vCYPfPm5UrlAL9okGJ+p3M42xY5W0qSUsRD 3XluwJG5UAIgqRsnC+cumceWK4Sw/U4+WIdT8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=JP/E6xJO3MNHLka/vvrj4kN7AouL+qiw CMFy1YY7p0TrfPhv8g2tKspNfkHDrtgHX1sIEaJ/V1ogv/EuzHIpKKoakt+VCHKO jM1Uu1zUDCKk77ME3hew/bhYDswbqP1P0Seqkj89x6elrr1fURHO9w4jS0oF8Ze4 +0W0yj1gptE= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C2485B14A; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:29:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 28FFA5B149; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:29:03 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Brandon Casey's message of "Tue\, 22 Sep 2009 09\:52\:31 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 0D70FF9C-A795-11DE-A8B1-8B19076EA04E-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Brandon Casey writes: > Possibly it is related to the version of MakeMaker? I am using version > 6.17 (Revision: 1.133) along with Perl 5.8.4 on Solaris 10 x86. The > MakeMaker version should be in the header at the top of the perl.mak > file. I think that is it. DESTDIR support in MakeMaker seems to be lacking in medieval versions of Perl. It appears that it started being usable at around its 6.11 (and 6.17 you have is fine). http://kobesearch.cpan.org/htdocs/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/Changes.html https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6131#c7