On May 25, 2008, at 17:47, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> PERL_INSTALL_ROOT is just a directory you can pass
"make install" in
> order to install everything to a temporary directory.
So if "make
> install" normally creates /usr/local/bricolage,
"make install
> PERL_INSTALL_ROOT=/my/temp/dir" would create
> /my/temp/dir/usr/local/bricolage.
>
> ExtUtils::MakeMaker makes this Just Work (and
Module::Build supports
> something similar). You need something like this to
allow rpmbuild
> (and every other package manager I've worked with) to
dump everything
> into a temporary "root" so it can build a
package.
>
> In a "normal" install from source,
PERL_INSTALL_ROOT won't be set,
> so it
> won't affect the install at all. (Or, at least, that's
the idea. I'm
> working on a test install now to verify...)
Oh. So it's not normally set? That's fine. Thanks,
David
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