On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:34:42PM -0000, Orton, Yves wrote: > Lets consider the situation as we have it from the POV of a CPAN.pm user > without your patches (like me and the vast majority of production perl > instances out there). > > 1. CPAN downloads the dist unpacks it and either > A. Finds no Makefile.PL, and crashes directly. > B. Finds a Makefile.PL which is simply a passthrough to Module::Build and > Build.PL. > i) CPAN passes special options to the Makefile.PL > ii) where Module::Build either ignores them or dies with an error.
Ah HA! I see the problem. M::B's Makefile.PL *does* honor a healthy chunk of Makefile.PL options. Including PREFIX. It might behave a little differently, but that's the best that can be done without someone doing a lot of work to emulate MM's fairly crazy prefixification logic. [/usr/local/src/CPAN/Module-Build-0.21] perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~ perl Build.PL config=prefix=/Users/schwern Checking whether your kit is complete... Looks good Creating new 'Build' script for 'Module-Build' version '0.21' > In what way is the superior to > > 1. CPAN downloads the dist, unpacks it and > 2. Runs Makefile.PL with some set of special options > 3. Makefile.PL uses Module::Build and either ignores them or dies with an > error. This is exactly what it does. If that's not working for you I guess its just a bug. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ It's Airplane Glue sniffing time!
