[Shipwright] Building perl in vessels with 'perl' in their names

[sunnavy]

Good catch, I'll update code to reflect this.
Thank you!

sunnavy

On 12-06-15 15:06, David Good wrote:
> I've found an interesting bug(?) with Shipwright.  If you build a vessel
> containing a perl installation using an --install-base directory
> containing the string 'perl', Configure will, by default, install all of
> its core modules under './lib' rather than './lib/perl5'. 
> 
> I guess the authors of Configure decided that if your prefix already
> includes 'perl' it would be redundant to put things under a 'perl5'
> subdirectory.  Unfortunately, the Shipwright wrapper scripts and shell
> source files assume that everything is under './lib/perl5'.  Since my
> RPM package is going to have a name that includes 'perl', I'm pretty
> much guaranteed that Configure will see it in my prefix setting. 
> 
> The easy fix for it is to add -Dinstallstyle='lib/perl5' to the
> Configure commandline in the perl build script:
> 
>     configure: sh Configure -de -Dprefix=%%INSTALL_BASE%%
>     -Dinstallstyle='lib/perl5'
>     make: %%MAKE%%
>     install: %%MAKE%% install
>     clean: %%MAKE%% clean
> 
> 

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