PostgreSQL and Perl

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@linda.lfix.co.uk>]

I'm trying to find out what to do with this Perl library that PostgreSQL
produces.

The upstream Makefile.PL wants to put things into my own locations, and
I need to find out how to force things to debian/tmp... and what directory
under there I should put it in.

I ran this command to show the current paths as shown by the MakeMaker man
page:

  $ perl '-V:install.*'
  installarchlib='/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00402'
  installprivlib='/usr/lib/perl5'
  installbin='/usr/bin'
  installman1dir='/usr/man/man1'
  installman3dir='/usr/man/man3'
  installscript='/usr/bin'
  installsitearch='/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux'
  installsitelib='/usr/local/lib/site_perl'

The Makefile is trying to put things in $installsitelib; is that OK for
the FSSTND?  (I think not, because no other package seems to use it;
as far as I can see similar stuff goes into /usr/lib/perl5.)

I see from the man page for MakeMaker that I can feed new variable values to
WriteMakefile(), but I'm not sure what effect this will have on Perl and I
really don't have time to find out.

How can I change this variable in a manner suitable for enclosing in a
Debian package?  (I attach the Makefile.PL file; if anyone
can suggest the necessary changes, I shall be grateful.)


#-------------------------------------------------------
#
# $Id: Makefile.PL,v 1.4 1997/09/25 21:14:41 mergl Exp $
#
# Copyright (c) 1997  Edmund Mergl
#
#-------------------------------------------------------

use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
use Config;
use strict;

print "\nConfiguring Pg\n";
print "Remember to actually read the README file !\n";
die "\nYou didn't read the README file !\n" unless ($] >= 5.002);

if (! $ENV{POSTGRES_HOME}) {
    warn "\$POSTGRES_HOME not defined. Searching for PostgreSQL...\n";
    foreach(qw(/usr/local/pgsql /usr/pgsql /home/pgsql /opt/pgsql /usr/local/postgres /usr/postgres /home/postgres /opt/postgres)) {
        if (-d "$_/lib") {
            $ENV{POSTGRES_HOME} = $_;
            last;
        }
    }
}

if (-d "$ENV{POSTGRES_HOME}/lib" || $ENV{OVERRIDE}) {
#                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# I put this bit in to stop it falling over because it couldn't find an
# already built and installed PostgreSQL - Oliver Elphick

    print "Found PostgreSQL in $ENV{POSTGRES_HOME}\n";
} else {
    die "Unable to determine PostgreSQL\n";
}

my %opts = (
    NAME         => 'Pg',
    VERSION_FROM => 'Pg.pm',
    INC	         =>  "-I$ENV{POSTGRES_HOME}/include -I../../include -I../libpq",
    LIBS         => ["-L$ENV{POSTGRES_HOME}/lib -L ../libpq -lpq"],
);


WriteMakefile(%opts);

exit(0);

# end of Makefile.PL

Oliver Elphick                                Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
Isle of Wight                                  http://lfix.co.uk/oliver

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