Re: Non-versioned install*lib directories
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 06:55:19PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>I have a local package of a Perl program with a few attached modules,
>which are version-independent (at least assuming you have >= 5.004). I'd
>like to have these installed into /usr/lib/perl5 rather than any
>versioned subdirectory, so that the same package will run on potato
>systems. Previously I was using:
>
> perl -MConfig -e 'print $Config{installprivlib}'
>
>... in debian/rules to get hold of this directory. With perl-5.004 and
>perl-5.005, this returned /usr/lib/perl5; with perl-5.6, it returns
>/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.
Read the perl-policy document (/usr/share/doc/perl-5.6-doc/perl-policy*)
which details how to build perl modules in §3.1.
Regards,
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Brendan O'Dea bod@compusol.com.au
Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9810 3633
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