Bug 17682 – perl modules installs in wrong director{y,ies}

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Håkan Wessberg 2003-03-17 07:51:28 UTC]

When emerging perl modules (libwww-perl-5.68, Digest-MD5-2.20-r1 is the ones
I've tested) they install in /usr/lib/site_perl, and not
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl where the perl binary looks for them.

With this patch things work for me.
But I'm not sure if it's the correct solution.
==
--- perl-module.eclass.orig     2003-03-17 13:36:12.000000000 +0100
+++ perl-module.eclass  2003-03-17 13:37:46.000000000 +0100
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@
        SITE_ARCH=${installsitearch}
        eval `perl '-V:installarchlib'`
        ARCH_LIB=${installarchlib}
+       eval `perl '-V:installsitelib'`
+       SITE_LIB=${installsitelib}
+       eval `perl '-V:installprivlib'`
+       PRIV_LIB=${installprivlib}
                                         
        
        make \
@@ -69,6 +73,9 @@
                INSTALLSITEMAN7DIR=${D}/usr/share/man/man7 \
                INSTALLSITEMAN8DIR=${D}/usr/share/man/man8 \
                INSTALLSITEARCH=${D}/${SITE_ARCH} \
+               INSTALLARCHLIB=${D}/${ARCH_LIB} \
+               INSTALLSITELIB=${D}/${SITE_LIB} \
+               INSTALLPRIVLIB=${D}/${PRIV_LIB} \
                INSTALLSCRIPT=${D}/usr/bin \
                ${myinst} \
                ${mytargets} || die

[Comment 1 Håkan Wessberg 2003-03-17 09:12:40 UTC]

Created attachment 9516 [details, diff]
same solution as in the report, but easier to retrieve as a real patch.

[Comment 2 Robert Coie (RETIRED) 2003-03-18 17:26:38 UTC]

Can you report your Perl version, and ExtUtils-MakeMaker version also?  I can't
reproduce the problem with 5.8.0 - Digest-MD5 installs properly in
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.so for me even
without your patch.

[Comment 3 Håkan Wessberg 2003-03-19 02:52:24 UTC]

Perl and MakeMaker versions: dev-lang/perl-5.6.1-r10, dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r4.

Digest-MD5 installed without my patch (interresting line from emerge)
>>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.so
>>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/Digest/MD5.pm
>>> /usr/lib/site_perl/
>>> /usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/
>>> /usr/lib/5.6.1/
>>> /usr/lib/5.6.1/i686-linux/
>>> /usr/lib/5.6.1/i686-linux/perllocal.pod

MD5.so and MD5.pm installs in the right place because INSTALLSITEARCH is set in perl-module.eclass, but INSTALLSITELIB and INSTALLARCHLIB is not and MakeMaker thinks those belongs in /usr/lib.

Digest-MD5 with patch:
>>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.so
>>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/Digest/MD5.pm
--- /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/
--- /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux/

MD5.so and MD5.pm install correctly as before, but this time INSTALLSITELIB and INSTALLARCHLIB is set to the correct locations in /usr/lib/perl5.

Perhaps there is something else going on here, maybe it's my installation that is failing, but I really can't see what that would be.

If you want me to investigate more, let me know.

[Comment 4 Håkan Wessberg 2003-03-19 05:19:40 UTC]

I reinstalled MakeMaker (same version), and now things are back to normal.
I didn't backup to old MakeMaker, so I have no way to check the difference between them. (Doh!)

Sorry for the noise.
Close.

[Comment 5 Robert Coie (RETIRED) 2003-03-19 15:15:18 UTC]

Presumed caused by bad internal MakeMaker interaction with older Perl ebuilds.