Re: ./configure --prefix fails

[Tobias Oetiker <nospam@thanx>]

Today you sent me mail regarding Re: ./configure --prefix fails:

*> On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
*> 
*> > Folks,
*> > 
*> > I just tried to compile wml (latest SNAP) on several systems here at SDSC and found that
*> > there are still problems with the --prefix for systems where siteperl is not
*> > installed in a standard location ... there seem to be some issues with
*> > MakeMaker in connection with regexp maching on the site-perl path ...
*> > 
*> > Anyhow, I suggest to add some apropriate perl -0777 -p -e 's|....|ddd|g' code
*> > to fix the output of Maefile.PL to make sure the modules actually get
*> > installed within the the wml install tree and not in the site-perl directory
*> > .. 
*> 
*> Hi tobias,
*> 
*> could you send me more infos on those systems, e.g. the Config.pm and the
*> location of your perl system?

for example this one:

> perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=freebsd, osvers=4.0-current, archname=i386-freebsd
    uname='freebsd freefall.freebsd.org 4.0-current freebsd 4.0-current #0:
$Date: 1999/05/
05 19:42:40 $'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='undef', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2
release)
    cppflags=''
    ccflags =''
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=true
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags ='-Wl,-E'
    libpth=/usr/lib
    libs=-lm -lc -lcrypt
    libc=/usr/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.3
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-DPIC -fpic', lddlflags='-shared'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Built under freebsd
  Compiled at May 18 1999 02:56:17
  @INC:
    /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach
    /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .

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the problem is somewhere in perl/5.00503/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm

this module tries to handle the PREFIX argument in MakeMaker it does this by
regexp matching to the @INC contents (I thing) unfortunately it fails
sometimes and the modules will endup in the site_perl dir instead of below
PREFIX ...

cheers
tobi
 
*> Denis
*> 
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