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On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 06:56:47PM -0300, Branden wrote: > James Mastros wrote: > > magical "install" script in them that knows how to do special things with > > files in that directory (like set up symlinks from the normal man dirs). > > That probably should be in Perl's Config.pm, since Perl itself will have to > install its own manpages. Perl should probably also include system-wide > shared libraries location, and other things of this kind. Yah. In fact, I'm surprised it doesn't already. > I'd rather not have any kind of `script' that would be run on an > installation, to avoid the `Memoize' kind of bug (couldn't find the > reference), in which the install script had something like Oh, I think you're understanding me wrong -- the par being installed doesn't get to have an install program, the directory being installed into does. Thus, for ex, doc/lib could have a script that does pod2man and installs the manpages. (It's arguable that the par being installed should get to have an install script, but it should be highly optional.) -=- James Mastros -- "All I really want is somebody to curl up with and pretend the world is a safe place." AIM: theorbtwo homepage: http://www.rtweb.net/theorb/Thread Previous | Thread Next