So I'm having a play with userelocatableinc. It appears that the order
of the parameters to Configure matters:
This (broken onto several lines for clarity):
$ sh Configure -Dusethreads
-Duserelocatableinc
-Dprefix=$HOME/perl-5.10.0
-de
makes perl build and install to the right directory, and if I rename the
directory, everything works. Yay!
But my first attempt was:
$ sh Configure -de
-Dusethreads
-Duserelocatableinc
-Dprefix=$HOME/perl-5.10.0
where the -Dprefix seemed to be ignored. perl was installed under
/usr/local, despite ...
$ /usr/local/bin/perl -V
...
config_args='-de -Dusethreads -Duserelocatableinc
-Dprefix=/home/cantrelld/perl-5.10.0'
...
The only difference is whether -de comes at the beginning or the end.
I've not noticed the order being significant before, and indeed all the
examples in the INSTALL file have -de (or -des) *first*. Is this a bug?
Has anyone else noticed it? Should I mumble at the nice p5p people?
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