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On Tuesday, January 8, 2002, at 02:04 AM, Dan Kogai wrote: > When I say easy, it has to be as easy as > > ../Configure -des > make test > make install > > is it *that* easy? It was last time I built Perl. >>> installbindir and installscriptdir should've been /usr/local/bin, not >>> /usr/bin. >> >> Probably so, but shouldn't LWP be using 'installsitebin' instead of >> 'installbin' anyway? Seems like there's joint blame here. > > I partly agree with that. But LWP is just tip of the iceburg. > Consider > an average user. I think they would hit nothing but return keys when > configuring CPAN.pm (except for download site selection, of course). > The > layout should be set so that it keeps from "rogue" modules form > clobbering > the original system. Perl built into the system uses /usr/bin as installbin. This is the correct setting; the system perl does not belong in /usr/local/bin. If LWP uses the wrong install path, there is nothing I can do about that, since I don't touch LWP. The same is true for the rest of the iceberg. You should complain to the LWP maintainers. And maybe mention that HEAD may be a poor naming choice for a command that regularly gets put onto a Unix system. -FredThread Previous | Thread Next