Bug#496157: debhelper: dh, Makefile.PL and Build.PL glitch
Package: debhelper
Version: 7.0.16
Severity: normal
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When using dh7 and the nice small debian/rules files for perl modules
I saw several times that stuff gets installed into /usr/usr with
dh_auto_install.
Today I again stumbled over this phenomenon -- with
libdata-serializer-perl, in the pkg-perl repo.
After some investigation (and looking at other modules) it seems that
the problem comes up with modules where Makefile(.PL) is just a
wrapper for Module::Build; in the case of libdata-serializer-perl
dh_auto_install calls
make install DESTDIR=/tmp/buildd/libdata-serializer-perl-0.48/debian/libdata-serializer-perl PREFIX=/usr
which is perfectly fine but the previously generated Makefile then
calls
/usr/bin/perl Build --makefile_env_macros 1 install
which AFAICS adds the "PREFIX=/usr" to "perl Build" -- and so we end
up with files in /tmp/buildd/libdata-serializer-perl-0.48/debian/libdata-serializer-perl/usr/usr/
I'm not sure if and what debhelper can do about it; one option might
be to prefer Build(.PL) over Makefile(.PL) for dh_auto_{configure,build,install}
(or at least _install); in general I prefer MakeMaker over
Module::Build magic, but in this case it would solve the problem.
But maybe someone else has some other ideas.
Cheers,
gregor
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.19 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.25-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii html2text 1.3.2a-5 advanced HTML to text converter
ii man-db 2.5.2-2 on-line manual pager
ii perl 5.10.0-13 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii po-debconf 1.0.15 manage translated Debconf template
debhelper recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii dh-make 0.46 tool that converts source archives
- -- no debconf information
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