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On 2002.01.14, at 18:39, Ken Williams wrote: > As far as I can tell (which isn't very far, since the Config.pm > documentation is rather terse), /usr/bin is the correct value. I just > checked a couple other perl installations (5.6.0 and 5.005_03, both on > Linux) and they both have 'installscript' set to /usr/bin. That's one of the reasons why I choose BSD over Linux (To be more exact, most of Linux distributions especially Redhat). They use /usr/* too casually. Well, here I am not talking about correctness. I just hate to see beginners clobbering files. Consider the general public of Mac users. Now that MacOS X is default boot OS even for a lamp shade called iMac, we should make perl layouts more goof-proof. > Try poking around - can you find any perl installations that have > 'installscript' set to /usr/local/bin , as you claim it should be? A > quick way to check is with the command 'perl -V:installscript' at the > command line. A lot. Most post-installed perl built w/ 'sh Configure -des' use /usr/local/bin as default. (Also note without hints file Configure's $prefix is /usr/local by default). As for pre-installed, perl, Here is an example of FreeBSD. /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/Config.pm > installarchlib='/usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach' > installprivlib='/usr/libdata/perl/5.00503' > installbin='/usr/local/bin' > installman1dir='/usr/local/man/man1' > installman3dir='/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/man/man3' > installscript='/usr/local/bin' > installsitearch='/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd' > installsitelib='/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005' > installusrbinperl='undef' Though perl itself is on /usr/bin, FreeBSD carefully layouts directory so that anything post-intalled direct to /usr/local. And here is NetBSD. Though perl is not pre-installed, It's avaiable via package. Note prefix is /usr/pkg instead of /usr/local > installarchlib='/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.6.0/powerpc-netbsd' > installprivlib='/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.6.0' > installbin='/usr/pkg/bin' > installman1dir='/usr/pkg/man/man1' > installman3dir='/usr/pkg/man/man3' > installprefix='/usr/pkg' > installprefixexp='/usr/pkg' > installscript='/usr/pkg/bin' > installsitearch='/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/powerpc-netbsd' > installsitebin='/usr/pkg/bin' > installsitelib='/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0' > installstyle='lib/perl5' > installusrbinperl='undef' > installvendorarch='' > installvendorbin='' > installvendorlib='' The point is clear. Any pre-installed (or package-distributed) perl that come with any BSD except MacOS X use different directory for post-installed files. Isn't Darwin supposed to be a family member of BSD? Dan the Man with Too Many Directory Layouts to Poke Around.Thread Previous | Thread Next