[TriLUG] Perl modules and RPMs

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 20:48, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> Tanner,
> 
> Have you tested the above under RHL 8, or specifically a Perl
> installation with the latest version of MakeMaker?  It seems that new
> versions of MakeMaker change some of the semantics of variable
> substitution in the Makefiles -- certain variables are now substituted
> by MakeMaker itself, instead of allowing make itself to do it.  The
> result is that some of the variables don't get RPM_BUILD_ROOT inserted,
> breaking the RPM build process.
> 
> I tried to hunt down this particular bug, but got bogged down in the
> immense number of install location variables.  I e-mailed the cpan2rpm
> author, who said he's not really maintaining it anymore.  Maybe I should
> work harder on fixing this, or have you already done so in that version
> above?

Jeremy,

I have not tested this on RH8 because I don't have access to a
RH8 box.  Do you know, specifically, what version of perl and
MakeMaker RH8 uses?  

I have tested it on Mandrake 9 and it works there.  Mandrake
9 uses perl 5.8.0 and MakeMaker 6.03.

Cheers,
Tanner
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