Re: Broken perl configuration

2013-02-23 Thread Bruce Miller
On 02/23/2013 12:44 PM, Jan Stary wrote: On Feb 21 11:05:23, dl...@geeklair.net wrote: On Feb 21, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Bruce Miller wrote: With MacPort's perl 5.12, the executable is installed in /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin On my MacOSX 10.5.8. with macports 2.1.3 it is not,

Re: Broken perl configuration

2013-02-21 Thread Bruce Miller
On 02/21/2013 12:14 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Feb 21, 2013, at 12:09 PM, Bruce Miller wrote: It might make sense to set vendorbin like we're doing, but leave sitebin alone (allowing people who install outside of macports to shoot themselves in the foot). I don't know if

Re: Broken perl configuration

2013-02-21 Thread Bruce Miller
On 02/21/2013 11:46 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Feb 21, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Bruce Miller wrote: And, let's be frank; Macs cater (wisely, perhaps) to a group of users who don't know about, or want to know about, $PATH. ... and those people tend to not ever use the terminal ... ;-)

Re: Broken perl configuration

2013-02-21 Thread Bruce Miller
On 02/21/2013 11:05 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Feb 21, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Bruce Miller wrote: With MacPort's perl 5.12, the executable is installed in /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin which is *NOT* where people expect to find programs. And it's NOT a directory people want t

Broken perl configuration

2013-02-21 Thread Bruce Miller
Hello folks; I'm new here, and actually only seldom a mac user, but I do develop software that colleagues run -- or used to run on -- a mac. The software uses the standard Makefile.PL/ MakeMaker set up to build & install the executable scripts in a standard place. That is, it NOWHERE indicate