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Re: More Perl fun: man and System directories

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Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date
Dec 14, 2006, 14:15 UTC
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Sorry about the delay. My subscription e-mail to the list got delayed somewhere along the way, so I missed your message until I decided to poke at the web archive.

On Dec 13, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Sebastian Harl wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 08:07:19AM -0500, Brian Gernhardt wrote:
> > 1) Perl is creating man files in the wrong place.  My system expects
> > them to be in /usr/local/share/man, but Perl is installing them in /
> > usr/local/man.  Currently I'm just moving them by hand every time I
> > pull-make-install, which is less than optimal.
>
> Try "perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor".

That doesn't seem to change anything at all, and checking "man ExtUtils::MakeMaker" and "perl -V:install.*", that still seems to install man files in /usr/local/man instead of /usr/local/share/man. And still generates /usr/local/System/...

I ran: cd perl; perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor; cd ..; make; sudo make install

Maybe I need to tweak Perl's variables somewhere instead. Or my MANPATH. The latter is probably easier.

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  1. Brian GernhardtDec 13, 2006
  2. Sebastian HarlDec 13, 2006
  3. Brian GernhardtDec 14, 2006

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