Bug 73401

Summary:	PREFIX not used in Makefiles generated by perl
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Gerald Teschl <gt>
Component:	perl	Assignee:	Warren Togami <wtogami>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	maine
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Description Gerald Teschl 2002-09-04 07:48:16 UTC

make-3.79.1-14

I just tried to rebuild some rpms created with cpanflute2 and noted that
all will fail (they build fine under 7.3).

I noted that the problem is that the command

make PREFIX=..... install

does not install the files under the PREFIX given on the command line
but under the PREFIX given in the Makefile.

Comment 1 Christof Damian 2002-10-16 13:15:01 UTC

also: is there a cpanflute available for redhat 8.0 ?

Comment 2 Gerald Teschl 2003-01-19 16:44:42 UTC

The problem is that the Makefile generated by perl from Makefile.PL
has a PREFIX varibale but it is not used. E.g., it has

PREFIX=/usr
INSTALLVENDORLIB=/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0

instaed of

PREFIX=/usr
INSTALLVENDORLIB=$(PREFIX)/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0

As a consequence

perl Makefile.PL
make
PREFIX=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr make install

will no longer work. However,

perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr
make
make install

will work.

This change breaks all rpms made with cpanflute.

Comment 3 Christof Damian 2003-01-19 17:41:40 UTC

to answer my own question: on CPAN you can find RPM::Specfile which includes
cpanflute2 which works nicely with redhat 8.0.