INSTALLSCRIPT does not appear to be working as expected. You can see from the hilighted line below that I'm expecting scripts to wind up in /home/perl/lib/x86_64-bin, but they're going into /home/perl/lib/bin.

Anyone know what the problem is here?

Running [/home/perl/lib/x86_64-bin/perl /home/perl/lib/bin/cpanp-run-p
+erl /home/perl/.cpanplus/5.12.1/build/Perl-Tidy-20090616/Makefile.PL 
+PREFIX=/home/perl/lib INSTALLSCRIPT=/home/perl/lib/x86_64-bin]...
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Perl::Tidy
Running [/home/perl/lib/bin/make]...
cp lib/Perl/Tidy.pm blib/lib/Perl/Tidy.pm
cp bin/perltidy blib/script/perltidy
/home/perl/lib/x86_64-bin/perl -MExtUtils::MY -e 'MY->fixin(shift)' --
+ blib/script/perltidy
...
Running [/home/perl/lib/bin/make test]...
...
Result: PASS
Running [/home/perl/lib/bin/make install]...
Installing /home/perl/lib/lib/site_perl/5.12.1/Perl/Tidy.pm
Installing /home/perl/lib/man/man1/perltidy.1
Installing /home/perl/lib/man/man3/Perl::Tidy.3
Installing /home/perl/lib/bin/perltidy

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Thanks.

In reply to INSTALLSCRIPT Not Working by bergbrains

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