From: Brian Gernhardt Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:15:20 GMT Subject: Re: More Perl fun: man and System directories Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4F093D53-CFC7-44F1-9460-22DAD35DBAC8@silverinsanity.com> 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: > 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.