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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-03-03 16:45:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-03-03 16:45:49 +0000 |
| commit | 49cb0e56d106a6666efa8660569a458b7eb3368b (patch) | |
| tree | 2d785396be697aabfe00e6d73e20d4503a1d2d3e /INSTALL | |
| parent | 063663a92c4fb4011a2fcf431c58c65993fad69c (diff) | |
| download | perl-49cb0e56d106a6666efa8660569a458b7eb3368b.tar.gz | |
add MakeMaker caveat to INSTALL (from Andy Dougherty)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5491
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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 7 |
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@@ -380,6 +380,10 @@ be used for installing those add-on modules and scripts. By default, ExtUtils::MakeMaker will install architecture-independent modules into $sitelib and architecture-dependent modules into $sitearch. +NOTE: As of 5.6.0, ExtUtils::MakeMaker will use $sitelib and $sitearch, +but will not use the other site-specific directories. Volunteers to +fix this are needed. + =item Directories for vendor-supplied add-on files Lastly, if you are building a binary distribution of perl for @@ -432,6 +436,9 @@ Note how in this example, the vendor-supplied directories are in the /usr hierarchy, while the directories reserved for the end-user are in the /usr/local hierarchy. +NOTE: As of 5.6.0, ExtUtils::MakeMaker does not use these directories. +Volunteers to fix this are needed. + The entire installed library hierarchy is installed in locations with version numbers, keeping the installations of different versions distinct. However, later installations of Perl can still be configured to search the |