bergbrains has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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.

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Re: INSTALLSCRIPT Not Working
by VinsWorldcom (Prior) on Sep 24, 2010 at 16:46 UTC

    Did you try to install as if you weren't root and provide a path:

    perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/perl/lib/x86_64;
make
make test
make install

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[d/l]

      That's not what I want. I am supporting 3 different platforms with this installation of Perl and associated modules. I am using a single module directory and a distinct script dir for each platform. My CPANPLUS config looks like this:

          makemakerflags            'PREFIX=/home/perl/lib INSTALLSCRIPT=/home/perl/lib/x86_64-bin'

      In fact, it looks like this in the actual Config.pm file:

      $conf->set_conf( makemakerflags => 'PREFIX=/home/perl/lib INSTALLSCRIPT=' .$ENV{MY_PERL_DIR} );

      Where MY_PERL_DIR is set based on the architecture of the platform on which I run CPANPLUS, so the value of INSTALLSCRIPT always points to the directory that shold contain the executables for the current platform.

      PREFIX is working as expected, but INSTALLSCRIPT isn't.

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        Try adding INSTALLBIN: 
        makemakerflags  'PREFIX=/home/perl/lib INSTALLBIN=/home/perl/lib/x86_6
+4-bin INSTALLSCRIPT=/home/perl/lib/x86_64-bin'

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[d/l]
        same problem here
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