From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:34:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perl/Makefile: use 'installsitelib' even with NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER
Message-ID: <20120206203429.GA31404@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <9D199309-85A6-42EE-9417-8C4E61534670@spotify.com>

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 03:30:54PM -0500, Nicholas Harteau wrote:

> >>> ifdef NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER
> >>> -instdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(prefix)/lib)
> >>> +instdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(subst installsitelib=,'',$(shell $(PERL_PATH_SQ) -V:installsitelib)))
> > 
> > Isn't this a regression if I am a non-root user installing into
> > $HOME/local or similar? With MakeMaker, I end up with this in my
> > perl.mak:
> [...]
> 
> Totally correct - let me re-think the non-root case.  Thanks.

I just read the github PR you linked to. It sounds like it might work to
just add a knob that the homebrew recipe could tweak to enable this
behavior (with the knob off by default).

-Peff