http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8528
Folks want Module::Build and MakeMaker to install files into the same place. This is a perfectly legit concern. The problem comes when you use "perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~". MB has no equivalent and its Makefile.PL wrapper does not honor PREFIX. This is because the PREFIX algorithm is mad on the best of days, broken on the worst and you really don't want to have to support two implementations of it. One idea is to make MakeMaker's prefixification code callable by MB. This would let MB emulate PREFIX without having to duplicate the code. However, this will require some work on a part of MM that I prefer to just leave alone. A simpler, and faster to implement, alternative is to go the other way around. Have MakeMaker emulate MB's install_base functionality. Its also saner and less prone to bugs than PREFIX. Most of the time people just want a solution to "How do I install modules without being root". install_base does a better job of that than PREFIX. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Playstation? Of course Perl runs on Playstation. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi
