# Installation prefixes. Allow a Configure -D override. You
# may wish to reinstall perl under a different prefix, perhaps
# in order to test a different configuration.
+# For an explanation of the installation directories, see the
+# INSTALL file section on "Installation Directories".
case "\$prefix" in
'') prefix='$prefix' ;;
esac
# this too is handled automatically by Configure based on
# $installprefix, so it isn't included here either.
#
+# Note also that there are three broad hierarchies of installation
+# directories, as discussed in the INSTALL file under
+# "Installation Directories":
+#
+# =item Directories for the perl distribution
+#
+# =item Directories for site-specific add-on files
+#
+# =item Directories for vendor-supplied add-on files
+#
# See Porting/Glossary for the definitions of these names, and see the
-# INSTALL file for some examples.
+# INSTALL file for further explanation and some examples.
#
# In each case, if your previous value was the default, leave it commented
# out. That way, if you override prefix, all of these will be
for var in \
bin scriptdir privlib archlib man1dir man3dir html1dir html3dir \
- sitebin sitescriptdir sitelib sitearch \
- siteman1dir siteman3dir sitehtml1dir sitehtml3dir \
+ sitebin sitescript sitelib sitearch \
+ siteman1 siteman3 sitehtml1 sitehtml3 \
vendorbin vendorscript vendorlib vendorarch \
vendorman1 vendorman3 vendorhtml1 vendorhtml3
do
html1dir) dflt='' ;;
htm31dir) dflt='' ;;
- # Site-specific add-ons.
+ # Directories for site-specific add-on files
sitebin) dflt=$siteprefix/bin ;;
- # The scriptdir test is more complex, but this is probably usually ok.
- sitescriptdir)
+ sitescript)
if $test -d $siteprefix/script; then
dflt=$siteprefix/script
else
;;
sitelib)
case "$siteprefix" in
- *perl*) dflt=$prefix/lib/site_perl ;;
- *) dflt=$prefix/lib/$package/site_perl ;;
+ *perl*) dflt=$prefix/lib/site_perl/$version ;;
+ *) dflt=$prefix/lib/$package/site_perl/$version ;;
esac
;;
- sitearch) dflt="$sitelib/$apiversion/$archname" ;;
+ sitearch) dflt="$sitelib/$archname" ;;
- siteman1dir) dflt="$siteprefix/man/man1" ;;
- siteman3dir) dflt="$siteprefix/man/man3" ;;
+ siteman1) dflt="$siteprefix/man/man1" ;;
+ siteman3) dflt="$siteprefix/man/man3" ;;
# We don't know what to do with these yet.
- sitehtml1dir) dflt='' ;;
+ sitehtml1) dflt='' ;;
sitehtm31dir) dflt='' ;;
- # Vendor-specific add-ons. These are all usually empty.
+ # Directories for vendor-supplied add-on files
+ # These are all usually empty.
vendor*)
if test X"$vendorprefix" = X""; then
dflt=''
else
case "$var" in
vendorbin) dflt=$vendorprefix/bin ;;
-
- # The scriptdir test is more complex,
- # but this is probably usually ok.
- vendorscriptdir)
+ vendorscript)
if $test -d $vendorprefix/script; then
dflt=$vendorprefix/script
else
;;
vendorlib)
case "$vendorprefix" in
- *perl*) dflt=$prefix/lib/vendor_perl ;;
- *) dflt=$prefix/lib/$package/vendor_perl ;;
+ *perl*) dflt=$prefix/lib/vendor_perl/$version ;;
+ *) dflt=$prefix/lib/$package/vendor_perl/$version ;;
esac
;;
- vendorarch) dflt="$vendorlib/$apiversion/$archname" ;;
+ vendorarch) dflt="$vendorlib/$archname" ;;
- vendorman1dir) dflt="$vendorprefix/man/man1" ;;
- vendorman3dir) dflt="$vendorprefix/man/man3" ;;
+ vendorman1) dflt="$vendorprefix/man/man1" ;;
+ vendorman3) dflt="$vendorprefix/man/man3" ;;
# We don't know what to do with these yet.
- vendorhtml1dir) dflt='' ;;
- vendorhtm31dir) dflt='' ;;
+ vendorhtml1) dflt='' ;;
+ vendorhtm3) dflt='' ;;
esac # End of vendorprefix != ''
fi
# The original design for this Policy.sh file came from Wayne Davison,
# maintainer of trn.
# This version for Perl5.004_61 originally written by
-# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>.
+# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>.
# This file may be distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.