From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 23 0:40:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-062.telepath.com [216.14.0.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FD3537B422 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 00:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 87447 invoked by uid 100); 23 Aug 2000 07:40:28 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14755.32748.510248.196059@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 02:40:28 -0500 (CDT) To: Mark Murray Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: People running with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local? In-Reply-To: <200008230647.e7N6lFe09716@grimreaper.grondar.za> References: <14755.26839.743103.399203@guru.mired.org> <200008230647.e7N6lFe09716@grimreaper.grondar.za> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Murray writes: > > However, I was wondering if there was anyone who could fix things that > > weren't PREFIX clean who would also find them on a regular > > basis. That's not you. > There is a non-trivial Perl5 LOCALBASE problem that I'm trying to > get my head around. I'm actually discussing one of the PR's related to this now, and had a thought. Is it possible to specify an installation directory in the perl module installation process? If so, then the bsd.port.mk mechanism needs to be tweaked to use that to set things to LOCALBASE (well, PREFIX), and the perl build should add $(LOCALBASE)/lib/5.6.0 to the search path for modules. Thanx,