develooper Front page | perl.perl5.porters | Postings from June 2001

Re: Why extra -I in "make test"?

Thread Previous | Thread Next
From:
Gurusamy Sarathy
Date:
June 30, 2001 09:07
Subject:
Re: Why extra -I in "make test"?
Message ID:
200106301607.f5UG7QY27823@smtp3.ActiveState.com
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 12:03:08 EDT, schwern@pobox.com wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 08:58:04AM -0700, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
>> Nope, should be using INSTALLDIRS=perl as the hint instead.
>
>No, things like the CPAN version of Test::Harness have that set.
>MakeMaker will get confused and think its doing a build of perl rather
>than it just being a CPAN module which happens to also be in the core.

I disagree.  If one builds stuff with INSTALLDIRS=perl, one should
get the same behavior as when they build perl.  Why else would they
use it?

If you merely want to install to a different location, use the other
INSTALL* things to force that.


Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com

Thread Previous | Thread Next


nntp.perl.org: Perl Programming lists via nntp and http.
Comments to Ask Bjørn Hansen at ask@perl.org | Group listing | About