Thoughts on the age-old cyradm thingie

[Luca Olivetti]

Jay Levitt wrote:
> Interesting.  That patch just installs Shell.pm into vendor_perl instead of
> site_perl.  But when I ran the stock Cyrus configure on MDK 9.0, I had no
> problem with it running in site_perl; the problem I had was just that
> site_perl is not actually under PREFIX, and Makefile.PL passes PREFIX
> explicitly.  What problems did you have under 9.0?

site_perl isn't used by default in mdk 9.0 (or perl 5.8.0, look at the 
changelog for perl-base, search vendor_perl), so it would generate bogus 
dependencies when creating the rpm (files under site_perl would depend 
on perl-base >= 5.800 --which doesn't exist, rendering the resulting rpm 
impossible to install-- while files under vendor_perl depend on 
perl-base >= 2:5.8.0).


> 
> Conversely, it doesn't seem like your RPM changes PREFIX, so do you know

in the build part the %configure macro will automatically call configure 
--prefix=/usr (and other standard parameters) while in the install part 
make install is called with PREFIX=/current/build/root


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