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On Fri Dec 10 09:23:43 2010, perl@plan9.de wrote: > > This is a bug report for perl from perl@plan9.de, > generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.12.2. > > When one configurs perl with something like: > > -Uman1dir -Uman3dir -Usiteman1dir -Usiteman3dir > > Then perl and ExtUtils::MakeMaker (and probably others) correctly skip > creation and installation of manpages. > > However, they still end up in .packlist files with bogus paths, e.g.: > > /root/.staticperl/perl/lib/EV.pm > /root/.staticperl/perl/lib/EV/EVAPI.h > /root/.staticperl/perl/lib/EV/MakeMaker.pm > /root/.staticperl/perl/lib/EV/ev.h > /root/.staticperl/perl/lib/EV/libev.pod > /root/.staticperl/perl/lib/auto/EV/EV.a > /root/.staticperl/perl/lib/auto/EV/extralibs.ld > none/EV.3 > none/EV::MakeMaker.3 > none/EV::libev.3 > > Apparently, Configure internally uses "none" for these variables, and > whoever writes the .packlist files just slaps them in front, even if > the > files do not get installed. > Today, using a release tarball of Perl 5.14.0, I configured, built and installed Perl in a local directory using this configuration command: sh Configure -de -Dusedevel -Uman1dir -Uman3dir -Usiteman1dir -Usiteman3dir -Dprefix='/home/jkeenan/work/80536' After installation, I called: $ find work/80536 -type f -name '*packlist*' work/80536/lib/perl5/5.14.0/i686-linux/.packlist ... and then: grep -E '(none|\.3)' work/80536/lib/perl5/5.14.0/i686-linux/.packlist ... which produced no output. Hence, I was unable to reproduce the bug reported in this ticket. Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: new https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=80536Thread Previous