Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > PREFIX and INSTALL_BASE are mutually exclusive. If both are supplied > by INSTALL_BASE being set in PERL_MM_OPT ExtUtils::MakeMaker will > produce an error: > > $ echo $PERL_MM_OPT > INSTALL_BASE=/home/avar/perl5 > $ make -C perl PERL_PATH='/usr/bin/perl' prefix='/home/avar' perl.mak > make: Entering directory `/home/avar/g/git/perl' > /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL PREFIX='/home/avar' > Only one of PREFIX or INSTALL_BASE can be given. Not both. > make: *** [perl.mak] Error 255 > make: Leaving directory `/home/avar/g/git/perl' > > Change the perl Makefile to work around this by explicitly unsetting > INSTALL_BASE. > > INSTALL_BASE is set in PERL_MM_OPT by e.g. the popular local::lib > package, from its documentation: > > eval $(perl -I$HOME/perl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib 2>/dev/null) > > Many other environments might also have set PERL_MM_OPT before > building Git. This change enables us to build in these environments. > > Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> Great! I really appreciate this, using local::lib myself. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html