Re: [mp2] DESTDIR does not apply to mod_perl.so and includes

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On 08/02/2005, at 4:16 PM, Stas Bekman wrote:

> sure, but you can help us figure out a solution w/o knowing anything 
> about mod_perl. The situation of the packagers is unique. One can 
> think of it as if they are using chroot(1), where their / moves 
> elsewhere. It'd be easy to make DESTDIR supported, but this is not the 
> right thing. mod_perl has to be installed where all other Apache 
> modules are. So DESTDIR must not affect it. Notice that unlike mp1, 
> mp2 does not install mod_perl.so under the perl tree.

What's DESTDIR do currently? The "standard" thing for DESTDIR to do is 
to cause
files to be installed to a different location, irrespective of where 
libs etc.
are going to be searched for, and irrespective of whether or not it has 
a
snowball's chance in hell of actually working in that location.

It makes life easy for a packager, and it allows anyone else to see 
*exactly*
what "make install" would do were DESTDIR not set.

So my first reaction to your saying "So DESTDIR must not affect it" is 
"that
doesn't follow". Hence asking what it actually does at the moment.


> I suppose the simplest solution to this problem is to provide a new 
> Makefile.PL argument, which will be the same as DESTDIR in the perl 
> world, but for Apache things. e.g., MP_AP_DESTDIR, so if specified it 
> can be used exactly as in your patch above. (handling the trailing 
> slash of ofcourse). In your case MP_AP_DESTDIR will be the same value 
> as DESTDIR.

In the universe I come from, DESTDIR should not affect anything during 
the
actual build, just during the install. And it should affect 
*everything*. If
you also want a setting that will enable things to be installed 
somewhere else
*and work*, then you do need another setting. But in my universe, it's 
*that*
one that should be called something else. It seems from what I remember 
to be
more similar to autotools' ${prefix}.


Cheers,


Nick
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