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Re: MakeMaker problems with relocation

From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
January 7, 2003 02:42
Subject:
Re: MakeMaker problems with relocation
Message ID:
20030107104159.O2552@plum.flirble.org
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 12:58:59PM -0800, Erick Calder wrote:
> > I picked the latest rawhide perl release and split off the
> > MakeMaker bits into perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker as a seperate rpm
> 
> hmm... I'm thinking to repackage perl itself as RH provides their RPM
> without large-file support compiled in... grrr...
> 
> I wonder whether the perl team (us actually) could take on the
> responsibility of packaging perl for RH so we don't have to dance around RH
> decisions...?

We already do. It's called ./Configure && make && su root -c 'make install'

Nothing wrong with your own perl in /usr/local if you don't like RedHat's.

Nicholas Clark

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