Moving to dev@. Hal Finkel wrote on Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 17:03:37 -0500: > Hello, > > The default makefile does not seem to pass the prefix given to configure > to the Makefile.PL used to build the swig-pl bindings, and this seems to > cause the obvious problems with doing non-root installs. > > Fixing the problem seems simple: > > --- Makefile.in.orig 2010-11-25 17:55:59.000000000 +0000 > +++ Makefile.in 2011-09-24 21:47:19.512442060 +0000 > @@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ > ./config.status subversion/bindings/swig/perl/native/Makefile.PL > > $(SWIG_PL_DIR)/native/Makefile: $(SWIG_PL_DIR)/native/Makefile.PL > - cd $(SWIG_PL_DIR)/native; $(PERL) Makefile.PL > + cd $(SWIG_PL_DIR)/native; $(PERL) Makefile.PL PREFIX=$(prefix)
I think it would be better to change subversion/bindings/swig/perl/native/Makefile.PL.in (so that PREFIX takes effect even someone runs it manually for some reason), agreed?
