On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 02:11:37PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> You're going to run the perl file Makefile.PL and so you need to pass it
> arguments.  Of course, arguments aren't in the form of --... but instead
> simply
> 
>   perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr/local
> 
> and away you go :-)  I forget what other options you can specify --
> though I know from !#^#^%%% experience that you can't specify any of the
> esoteric VENDORARCHLIB-type dirs -- but it's the same format and you just
> string 'em along the command line.

The frustrating thing is that Makefile.PL and make can both take
arguments, but not all arguments.

Right now, spamassassin is built for Debian using the following:

perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
make install PREFIX="..." LOCAL_RULES_DIR="..." DEF_RULES_DIR="..."

-- 
Duncan Findlay

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