On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 09:07:26AM -0700, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
>  I disagree.  If one builds stuff with INSTALLDIRS=perl, one should
>  get the same behavior as when they build perl.  Why else would they
>  use it?

So that the module goes into the core library dir instead of the site
library.  Otherwise it will usually be masked by the original version.
There's nothing in the docs about building perl vs building the core.

       INSTALLDIRS
         Determines which of the two sets of installation
         directories to choose: installprivlib and installarchlib
         versus installsitelib and installsitearch. The first
         pair is chosen with INSTALLDIRS=perl, the second with
         INSTALLDIRS=site. Default is site.

I think your PERL_CORE flag in ext/utils/make_ext is the best bet.


>  If you merely want to install to a different location, use the other
>  INSTALL* things to force that.

The purpose of INSTALLDIRS is to set up all this for me in one shot.

If its a trade-off between making CPAN modules easier to maintain or
core modules, CPAN wins.



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