Re: [HACKERS] Perl library (was Building Postgres)

Cristian Gafton wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>
> > The rpm format would prefer to build *all* files on a source machine,
> > and then move them from the rpm file into the appropriate places on
> > target machines. The problem is that, apparently,
> > perl Makefile.PL
> > generates paths which are *very* specific to the version of perl on
>
> That should not be the case. It depends on how the Postgres package
> Makefile.PL is written, but in general it should go into a general use
> perl5 directory, such as /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl, which is anything but
> perl version dependant. If it generates paths that are perl version
> dependent then the Makefile.PL is busted.
>

/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i686-linux/Pg.pm

this is the standard path for all additionally installed modules.
It depends on the perl version as well as on the system type.

> > One possibility is to
> > simply lift all of the perl5 source tree into the rpm, and actually do
> > the build on the target machine from scratch. afaik, this is *not* the
> > preferred style for rpms.
>
> No, that is definitely not th way to handle packages distributed by rpm.
>
> Cristian
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Edmund

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