4.x Perl with customized $(PREFIX)

[Gerald Pfeifer]

This is from ports/56403: update port: mail/grepmail

How should we (I) handle this? Install the update nevertheless, or
ask for/hack up a port local fix?

Gerald

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Yen-Ming Lee <leeym at FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org

That problem only occurs in 4.x (perl-5.00503) with customized $(PREFIX).

When configuring grepmail with customized $(PREFIX), the ExtUtils::MakeMaker
of perl-5.00503 will discard the $(PREFIX) and generate these two lines:

INSTALLSITELIB = /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
INSTALLSITEARCH = /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd

while ExtUtils::MakeMaker of perl-5.6.1 will still respect $(PREFIX):

INSTALLSITELIB = $(PREFIX)/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
INSTALLSITEARCH = $(PREFIX)/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/mach

It's a general case (for perl-5.00503), therefore I prefer *NOT* to fix it
within the port by using some quick-and-dirty hack, such as

post-configure:
        ${PERL} -pi -e 's,/usr/local,${PREFIX},g' ${WRKSRC}/Makefile

regards,
-- 
Yen-Ming Lee [§õ«Û©ú] KeyID: 0x5EB52E51 : www.leeym.com : Taipei, Taiwan