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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:31:23AM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: > Here's a patch for this. Please don't apply it yet (unless you'd like > to force a fix by breaking the build). > There are two parts to the patch. The first is the configure fix from > Luc. This does indeed get things basically working on Solaris 10. > However, two tests fail: lib/ExtUtils/t/INST_PREFIX.t and > lib/ExtUtils/t/prefixify.t. The reason for this seems to be because > installbin is missing from the list in configpm. And indeed, adding it > in, as with the second part of the patch, leads to all tests passing. > > However, when trying this patch on linux, although all tests continued > to pass, make install installed all the bin files into ./... (that is a > directory called "..." in the build directory. (I've not had a chance > to test whether this also happens on Solaris.) > > So, the outstanding questions are: > > 1. Without the configpm patch, why do the tests pass on linux (and > presumably BSD) but not on Solaris? It turns out it's actually nothing to do with your patch. I can make Linux and FreeBSD fail in the same way, with a perl of the same vintage. It happens if one re-runs Configure -Duserelocatableinc in the same directory with config.sh from the previous run still there. I've reported this as bug #100844 The problem has been masked by ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.55_02, added in commit cb06ebec412ca5c6, which has this changelog --- a/lib/ExtUtils/Changes +++ b/lib/ExtUtils/Changes @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +6.55_02 Wed Aug 5 00:36:36 PDT 2009 + Feature Changes + * PREFIX now applies to relative directories. This is a change since + 6.20 when they were ignored. Its necessary for relocatable Perls. + + VMS + * Refactoring of "MakeMaker Parameters" section in 6.55_01 broke VMS. + (Craig Berry) + + > 2. Should the configpm patch have been a part of the original patch > (1d230ada), and something additional needs to be done to install in > the correct location? Yes. I have it tested in a local branch, and will push it soon. (Trying to do too many things concurrently) > 3. Does anyone have any time and appropriate OSes to look further into > this? I'm afraid my tuits have run out for now. I have now, and a variant of this patch is in blead. Solaris 10 and 11 now convert $^X to an absolute path. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next