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Re: git installation (as private user) should NEVER write site_perl

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Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date
Feb 20, 2007, 18:08 UTC
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>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> writes:

Randal> If git wants to add local Perl modules, they belong in Randal> ${prefix}/lib/perl/ or something, with the appropriate "use lib" added Randal> to the Perl scripts.

>From a bit further research, it looks like git prefers installing git-only

Perl modules using the standard MakeMaker, which of course will try to install them in site_lib.

Oddly enough, if I define NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER, I get the behavior I want.

I suggest that NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER is the *only* correct behavior in this case, so I propose that the code be made unconditional, and the Makemaker stuff be pulled out.

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