LFS - DESTDIR Style (minor update)

[Dan Nicholson]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov
<patrakov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Randy McMurchy wrote:
>  > Cc: to BLFS-Dev
>  >
>  > Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 03/31/08 10:44 CST:
>  >> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>  >>> The implication of going to DESTDIR for LFS would imply doing the same
>  >>> for BLFS.  Some of the BLFS packages are not DESTDIR friendly.  I can't
>  >>> remember which ones off the top of my head, but I do recall some that
>  >>> ignore DESTDIR, at least partially.
>  >> All perl modules. See
>  >> http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2007-December/060640.html
>  >
>  > This message is after-the-fact and not really relevant to the previous
>  > discussion. It is however, interesting.
>  >
>  > I just installed a Perl Module and not only was it native DESTDIR
>  > friendly and multilib friendly, it installed files depending on the
>  > native arch of the machine.
>
>  I cannot confirm this. Both with perl-5.8.8 and 5.10.0, the package installs
>  files into the DESTDIR, but it installs wrong files. See the URL above, I can
>  add nothing to what is already said there. If you insist on your point, please
>  provide full command lines starting with "perl Makefile.PL", and look into the
>  .packlist and perllocal.pod inside the DESTDIR.

This doesn't solve .packlist, but try:

make DESTDIR=/somewhere pure_vendor_install

That puts the module in vendor_lib and suppresses perllocal.pod. Or,
`perl Makefile.pl INSTALLDIRS=vendor' and `make ... pure_install'.

--
Dan