On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 02:11:00PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > 6.06 is not ready to be rolled into Perl yet. The Unix parts are ok, but > the Win32, VMS and MacPerl bits are borked. This likely doesn't matter to > Redhat and they should be safe using the 6.06 alpha in their devel version > (Rawhide?) I picked the latest rawhide perl release and split off the MakeMaker bits into perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker as a seperate rpm. This makes that part separately replacable (same trick is used for other parts of perl like perl-CGI). You can get it from http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/repository/perl/ (binary rpms are provided for RH80). I was about to package a snapshot of 6.06 alpha to continue the testdrive, but I cannot download http://makemaker.org/src/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-snap.tgz for some days now. > That's all been thrown out. The new logic is much simpler and does not try > to second-guess. > > With this in mind, you probably want to do something like this: > > require ExtUtils::MakeMaker; > if( $ExtUtils::MakeMaker::VERSION <= 5.45 ) { > perl Makefile.PL > make > make install PREFIX=$RPM_TMP_ROOT/usr > } > elsif( $ExtUtils::MakeMaker::VERSION >= 6.06 ) { > perl Makefile.PL > make > make install DESTDIR=$RPM_TMP_ROOT > } > else { > unsupported version of MakeMaker, please upgrade. > } I think these checks should be done at rpm-build time (in the spec file), and not at src.rpm-build time. Unfortunately rpm conditionals for requirements do only allow for ANDing conditions, not for ORing, which makes it even more messy ... :( How about the following hardliner suggestion: a) src.rpms should always require MakeMaker's version to be larger than 6.05 (e.g. 6.06, when it is about to be released or something like 6.05.99 for indicating the beta version): BuildRequires: perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker) > 6.05 b) We use the method that is currently supported: perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=bar [...] make install PREFIX=foo as this seems to be the most forward-compatible and user comprehensive way to go. c) We provide modified perl and perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker rpms (like the above) until the vendors catch up. -- Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.deThread Previous | Thread Next