Hello Monks. New here as a monk but have been a reader in the past...

I ran in to this problem too. Having had a look at the Makefile.PL sourcecode, I see the problem is due to the way Makefile.PL interfaces with configure. I've sent the following message to apreq-dev@httpd.apache.org:

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I've been trying to install libapreq2-2.12 using the following command:

perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor --with-apache2-apxs=/blah

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This fails because Makefile.PL assumes that options passed to it that are not recognised are Perl options rather than Makefile.PL options (line 54).

This results in configure being invoked as:

./configure --enable-perl-glue --with-perl-opts=INSTALLDIRS=vendor --w
+ith-apache2-apxs=/blah/apxs --with-perl=/blah/perl

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This leads to the configure script trying to run the following command at line 19493:

perl INSTALLDIRS=vendor build/version_check.pl

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that then fails...

Does anyone think it would be possible to enable the Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor for this package? I appreciate that the distribution uses a somewhat non-standard way to install the modules.

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I'll post anything I hear back about this question. In the meantime I've just not passed the INSTALLDIRS option to Makefile.PL - not ideal in my situation, but at least it allows me to install the modules.

Simon

In reply to Re^3: CPAN: Install of Apache2::Request failed by simonrees
in thread CPAN: Install of Apache2::Request failed by nesto

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