----- Original Message -----
From: "Vladimir Lipskiy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "perl6-internals" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jonathan Worthington"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 1:47 AM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: parrot, win32, stand-alone distribution, separate Parrot
maillist
> > Is it as simple as checking whether the OS is Windows, and setting
> %options
> > to contain appropriate paths, e.g.
>
> It's no use while checking if the OS is Windows, 'cause the distribution
is
> intended
> for only Win 32 users. So you should predefine the hash below.
Sorry, looks like I've caused confusion. That bit of my email was about
getting "make install" to work when building from the source under Win32,
and not about the standalone distribution. I've made another post about the
"make install" issue now.
> IMHO, you better try tweaking some directories out of Perl.
> So if I had my perl installed at D:\Perl\5.6.1, I would be overflowed
> with joy having found your script installed Parrot as D:\Perl\Parrot
> and be cussing if it woudn't be so.
Now I'm not sure if you're talking about "make install" or my executable
distribution. :-) Executable distro, I plan that you will just unzip it
where you want it. As for make install, I agree; it does need to allow the
user to choose where it will be put. Would that be done as a flag on the
configure script (maybe it's already implemented?), or when you do make
install, e.g. something like:-
make install PREFIX=D:\Perl\Parrot
Hope this helps,
Jonathan
