[ID 20000915.006] Incorrect(?) installation location forced byExtUtils::Install

This is a bug report for perl from gml4410@ggr.co.uk,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.


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   ExtUtils/Install.pm contains this comment (and acts accordingly).

        #October 1997: we want to install .pm files into archlib if
        #there are any files in arch. So we depend on having ./blib/arch
        #hardcoded here.

   This is unnecessary, and just leads to a proliferation of identical
files in multiple locations.  I install perl on multiple Unix
architectures and they access it using NFS.  I wish to share the
location of common, architecture-independent files and configure perl
accordingly.  Perl should honour this when installing module files.  It
is quite reasonable to have a large set of architecture-independent
files, with a small set of architecture-dependent support file (such as
*.xs code).  You shouldn't be relocating the architecture independent
parts just because there is a small architcture dependency. 

   This was not done in perl 5.004 and has never been a problem.

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Flags:
    category=library
    severity=medium
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This perlbug was built using Perl v5.6.0 - Wed Sep 13 15:55:31 BST 2000
It is being executed now by  Perl v5.6.0 - Tue Sep 12 15:06:42 BST 2000.

Site configuration information for perl v5.6.0:

Configured by gml4410 at Tue Sep 12 15:06:42 BST 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=irix, osvers=6.5, archname=IP-irix-n32
    uname='irix64 ukwsv100 6.5 04191225 ip27 '
    config_args='-Dprefix=/usr/common -Uinstallusrbinperl -Dlocincpth=/usr/central/include /usr/common/include -Dloclibpth=/usr/central/lib32'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define 
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc -n32', optimize='-O3', gccversion=
    cppflags='-D_BSD_TYPES -D_BSD_TIME -OPT:Olimit=0:space=ON -I/usr/central/include -I/usr/common/include -DLANGUAGE_C'
    ccflags ='-D_BSD_TYPES -D_BSD_TIME -woff 1009,1110,1174,1184,1552 -OPT:Olimit=0:space=ON -I/usr/central/include -I/usr/common/include -DLANGUAGE_C'
    stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc -n32', ldflags ='-Wl,-woff,84 -L/usr/central/lib32 -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/central/lib32'
    libpth=/usr/central/lib32 /usr/lib32 /lib32
    libs=-lgdbm -ldb -lm -lc
    libc=/usr/lib32/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-n32 -shared -L/usr/central/lib32'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.6.0:
    /usr/central/lib/perl5/5.6.0
    /usr/common/lib/perl5/5.6.0
    /usr/central/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
    /usr/common/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
    /usr/common/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.6.0:
    HOME=/users/d10/gml4410
    LANG=C
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/common/adm/perl5.6scripts:/usr/local/bin:/usr/reg-central/bin:/usr/central/bin:/usr/reg-common/scripts:/usr/common/scripts:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/sbin:/usr/bsd:/usr/bin:/bin:/users/d10/gml4410/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

• [ID 20000915.006] Incorrect(?) installation location forced byExtUtils::Install by gml4410
• Re: [ID 20000915.006] Incorrect(?) installation location forced by ExtUtils::Install by Nick Ing-Simmons