Re: [coldsync-hackers] coldsync install and perl

[Andrew Arensburger <arensb+CShackers@ooblick.com>]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:21:46PM -0400, Matt Cashner wrote:
> ok. let me ask this question before i work any further:
> if i fix this problem and produce a patch, will it be accepted?

	I don't know. I haven't seen your patch yet. But you're
certainly encouraged to send one in.

	The way I see it, there are two design requirements that,
unfortunately, conflict.
	The first is that it should be possible to specify different
configure-time and install-time values of $PREFIX. This is useful if
you use 'stow', or if you want to make a BSD/Debian/whatever package.
This is why there's the $PREFIX-munging stuff in perl/Makefile.PL.

	The second issue is that the 'coldsync' binary and ColdSync.pm
can be seen as separate but related packages, much like gtk and the
Gimp.
	The simplest solution would be to add a "--without-perl"
option to 'configure', so that if the standard installation doesn't
work, you can just build the Perl stuff separately.
	A better solution, I think, would be to have separate $PREFIX
and $PERL_PREFIX variables, with $PERL_PREFIX defaulting to $PREFIX to
handle the most common case.

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