Re: Perl installation

[Tobias Oetiker <nospam@thanx>]

Today you sent me mail regarding Re: Perl installation:

*> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
*> 
*> > Today you sent me mail regarding Perl installation:
*> > *> in the latest snapshot, i have written
*> > *>      $(MAKE) pure_perl_install PREFIX=$(PREFIX)
*> > *> 
*> > *> Could you tell me if it works for you?
*> > 
*> > sure ... is this the default ?
*> 
*> How, i must be tired this morning :-(
*> Don't understand this message too.
*> 
*> As i was unclear, here comes explanations on changes:
*> 
*> Problem description:
*>    Installation of Perl modules fails on some platforms.
*>    My experience is that if INSTALLSITELIB=$INSTALLPRIVLIB/site_perl
*>    then modules are installed under your_prefix/lib/wml/perl.
*>    Otherwise, these modules are installed into INSTALLSITELIB.
*>    Don't know why.
*> 
*> Before wml-1.7a304: in wml_common/Makefile.in
*>    $(MAKE) pure_install PREFIX=$(libdir)/perl
*> The pure_ prefix is to skip documentation generation and installation.
*> 
*> Now: in wml_common/Makefile.in
*>    $(MAKE) pure_perl_install PREFIX=$(libdir)/perl
*> 
*> This line is a synonym for your suggested
*>    $(MAKE) pure_install PREFIX=$(libdir)/perl INSTALLDIRS=perl
*> 

great ... it works as expected ... 

cheers
tobi
*> 

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