careful, however, not to overwrite a version of perl supplied by your
vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing.
-By default, Configure will arrange for /usr/bin/perl to be linked to
-the current version of perl. You can turn off that behavior by running
+By default, Configure will not try to link /usr/bin/perl to
+the current version of perl. You can turn on that behavior by running
- Configure -Uinstallusrbinperl
+ Configure -Dinstallusrbinperl
-or by answering 'no' to the appropriate Configure prompt.
+or by answering 'yes' to the appropriate Configure prompt.
+(Note that before perl 5.8.1, the default behavior was to create
+or overwrite /usr/bin/perl even if it already existed.)
In any case, system administrators are strongly encouraged to
put (symlinks to) perl and its accompanying utilities, such as perldoc,
$sitescript $siteprefix/bin
$sitelib $siteprefix/lib/perl5/site_perl/$version
$sitearch $siteprefix/lib/perl5/site_perl/$version/$archname
- $siteman1 $siteprefix/man/man1
- $siteman3 $siteprefix/man/man3
- $sitehtml1 (none)
- $sitehtml3 (none)
+ $siteman1dir $siteprefix/man/man1
+ $siteman3dir $siteprefix/man/man3
+ $sitehtml1dir (none)
+ $sitehtml3dir (none)
By default, ExtUtils::MakeMaker will install architecture-independent
modules into $sitelib and architecture-dependent modules into $sitearch.
$vendorscript $vendorprefix/bin
$vendorlib $vendorprefix/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/$version
$vendorarch $vendorprefix/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/$version/$archname
- $vendorman1 $vendorprefix/man/man1
- $vendorman3 $vendorprefix/man/man3
- $vendorhtml1 (none)
- $vendorhtml3 (none)
+ $vendorman1dir $vendorprefix/man/man1
+ $vendorman3dir $vendorprefix/man/man3
+ $vendorhtml1dir (none)
+ $vendorhtml3dir (none)
These are normally empty, but may be set as needed. For example,
a vendor might choose the following settings:
$sitescript /usr/local/bin
$sitelib /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/$version
$sitearch /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/$version/$archname
- $siteman1 /usr/local/man/man1
- $siteman3 /usr/local/man/man3
+ $siteman1dir /usr/local/man/man1
+ $siteman3dir /usr/local/man/man3
$vendorbin /usr/bin
$vendorscript /usr/bin
$vendorlib /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/$version
$vendorarch /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/$version/$archname
- $vendorman1 /usr/man/man1
- $vendorman3 /usr/man/man3
+ $vendorman1dir /usr/man/man1
+ $vendorman3dir /usr/man/man3
Note how in this example, the vendor-supplied directories are in the
/usr hierarchy, while the directories reserved for the end-user are in
cd /opt/perl # Or wherever you specified as $prefix
tar xvf perl5-archive.tar
+Alternatively, the DESTDIR variable is honored during C<make install>.
+The DESTDIR is automatically prepended to all the installation paths
+(and there is no need to edit anything). With DESTDIR, the above
+example can we written as:
+
+ sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/perl -des
+ make
+ make test
+ make install DESTDIR=/tmp/perl5
+ cd /tmp/perl5/opt/perl
+ tar cvf /tmp/perl5-archive.tar .
+
=head2 Site-wide Policy settings
After Configure runs, it stores a number of common site-wide "policy"