[TriLUG] Perl modules and RPMs

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 09:17, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 08:57, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> > 
> > So what I'm wondering is what does the Makefile look like on Mandrake so
> > that it works correctly?
> 
> Looking at the Mandrake 9 perl rpm yields this little tidbit:
> 
> Patch12:
> perl-5.8.0-RC2-MakeMaker--have-PREFIX-appear-in-INSTALLs-variables-like-it-used-to-be.patch.bz2
> 
> So, it appears that Mandrake 9 patches MakeMaker to fix this
> "new behavior".  I wonder why it was changed?  

If anyone is following this thread besides Tanner and myself, we
discussed this further on IRC; I opened a bug at Red Hat's bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78053

The patch from Mandrake 9 can be applied pretty easily to the perl SRPM
from Red Hat 8, which allows cpan2rpm to work nicely.  Let me know if
you'd like a copy of the modified SRPM.

--Jeremy