Hello,
I'm trying out ExtUtils::MakeMaker on Red Hat 9, and have found a
problem. RH 9 comes with Perl 5.8.0 which has some patches from
5.8.1-RC* applied.
One of these patches results in install(site|vendor)man[13]dir *not*
being defined, instead install(site|vendor)man[13] are:
$ perl -V:* | grep -P '^install.*man'
installman1dir='/usr/share/man/man1'
installman3dir='/usr/share/man/man3'
installsiteman1='/usr/share/man/man1'
installsiteman3='/usr/share/man/man3'
installvendorman1='/usr/share/man/man1'
installvendorman3='/usr/share/man/man3'
It seems that the offending patch is
http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch=18110
Additionally 5.8.1-RC1 to RC3 had this included, but it was changed back
in 5.8.1-RC4 (in unable to find the exact patch ATM).
So, I threw together a patch which fixes this by consulting the
'dir'-suffixless $Config vars too.
While at it, I tweaked MM_Unix so that it now defaults to the "core"
install dirs for perls which don't have vendor dir support or have
usevendorprefix not set (applicable of course when INSTALLDIRS=vendor is
used). Ditto for the site dirs. This is the behaviour I understand and
expect from reading core Perl's Configure.
I realize hacking MakeMaker must be done with a delicate touch and tried
to be very careful not to break anything; I think I succeeded and it
should be safe to apply this patch. After applying it, I get good,
expected results from a "perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor ; make
install DESTDIR=foo" on the following systems:
* FreeBSD 4.8 (perl 5.00503, usevendorprefix N/A)
* Red Hat 7.1 (perl 5.6.0, usevendorprefix N/A)
* Red Hat 7.2 (perl 5.6.1, usevendorprefix no)
* Red Hat 7.3 (perl 5.6.1, usevendorprefix yes (patched by RH))
* Tru64 5.1 (perl 5.6.1, usevendorprefix no)
* Mandrake 8.2 (perl 5.6.1, usevendorprefix no)
* Debian testing/unstable (perl 5.8.0, usevendorprefix yes)
* Red Hat 8.0 (perl 5.8.0, usevendorprefix yes)
* Red Hat 9 (perl 5.8.0 + some 5.8.1RC'ish patches, usevendorprefix yes)
Cheers,
-\/ille
--- lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm.orig 2003-08-15 04:28:42.000000000 +0300
+++ lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm 2003-09-03 00:27:52.000000000 +0300
@@ -2045,14 +2045,26 @@
$self->init_lib2arch;
- # Initialize installvendorman*dir if necessary
+ # Note: Perl 5.8.1-RC1 to RC3 have install(site|vendor)man[13] but no
+ # install(site|vendor)man[13]dir. For example Red Hat Linux 9
+ # ships with an affected (patched) Perl:
+ # http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch=18110
+
+ # Initialize installvendorman*dir if necessary. If usevendorprefix
+ # is not defined, initialize to core install dirs.
foreach my $num (1, 3) {
my $k = 'installvendorman'.$num.'dir';
+ my $l = 'installvendorman'.$num;
+ my $m = 'installman'.$num.'dir';
unless ($Config{$k}) {
- $Config_Override{$k} = $Config{usevendorprefix} ?
+ if ($Config{$l}) {
+ $Config_Override{$k} = $Config{$l};
+ } else {
+ $Config_Override{$k} = $Config{usevendorprefix} ?
$self->catdir($Config{vendorprefixexp}, 'man', "man$num") :
- '';
+ $Config{$m} || '';
+ }
}
}
@@ -2061,26 +2073,33 @@
my $vprefix = $Config{usevendorprefix} ? $Config{vendorprefixexp} : '';
my $sprefix = $Config{siteprefixexp} || '';
- # 5.005_03 doesn't have a siteprefix.
- $sprefix = $iprefix unless $sprefix;
-
# There are often no Config.pm defaults for these, but we can make
# it up.
unless( $Config{installsiteman1dir} ) {
- $Config_Override{installsiteman1dir} =
- $self->catdir($sprefix, 'man', 'man1');
+ $Config_Override{installsiteman1dir} =
+ $Config{installsiteman1} ||
+ ($sprefix ? $self->catdir($sprefix, 'man', 'man1') :
+ $Config{installman1dir});
}
unless( $Config{installsiteman3dir} ) {
- $Config_Override{installsiteman3dir} =
- $self->catdir($sprefix, 'man', 'man3');
+ $Config_Override{installsiteman3dir} =
+ $Config{installsiteman3} ||
+ ($sprefix ? $self->catdir($sprefix, 'man', 'man3') :
+ $Config{installman3dir});
}
unless( $Config{installsitebin} ) {
$Config_Override{installsitebin} =
- $self->catdir($sprefix, 'bin');
+ ($sprefix ? $self->catdir($sprefix, 'bin') : 'installbin');
}
+ # 5.005_03 doesn't have a siteprefix.
+ $sprefix = $iprefix unless $sprefix;
+
+ # < 5.6.1 doesn't have vendor dir support, default to "core" dirs.
+ $vprefix = $iprefix unless $vprefix;
+
$self->{PREFIX} ||= '';
if( $self->{PREFIX} ) {
@@ -2226,8 +2245,11 @@
}
# Generate these if they weren't figured out.
- $self->{VENDORARCHEXP} ||= $self->{INSTALLVENDORARCH};
- $self->{VENDORLIBEXP} ||= $self->{INSTALLVENDORLIB};
+ $self->{INSTALLVENDORBIN} ||= $self->{INSTALLBIN};
+ $self->{INSTALLVENDORLIB} ||= $self->{INSTALLPRIVLIB};
+ $self->{INSTALLVENDORARCH} ||= $self->{INSTALLARCHLIB};
+ $self->{VENDORARCHEXP} ||= $self->{INSTALLVENDORARCH};
+ $self->{VENDORLIBEXP} ||= $self->{INSTALLVENDORLIB};
return 1;
}
