Bug 77983 - Hardcoded path names in perl package
Summary: Hardcoded path names in perl package
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: perl
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Warren Togami
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-11-16 17:23 UTC by Eugene Kanter
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-05-28 07:30:55 UTC
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Description Eugene Kanter 2002-11-16 17:23:34 UTC 
Description of Problem:  
 
Perl package does not support different %{_prefix} because there is a lot of 
hadcoded "/usr" strings in perl.spec and MANIFEST.* files. 
 
 
How Reproducible:  
 
always  
  
Steps to Reproduce:  
1.  redefine _prefix 
2.  try to build perl package. 
 
Additional information. 
 
%{....} macros should be used.
Comment 1 Warren Togami 2005-05-28 07:30:55 UTC 
Sorry, we do not support relocatable packages.  If you want the package to be
relocatable please submit a spec patch for review against FC4.
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