Harry Putnam wrote: > David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>...and then Harry Putnam said... >>% >>% I'm a little lost in installing spamassassin without using the >>% ./configure approach. For example: How does one instruct the >>% `make install' to use /usr/local instead of /usr? >> >>Heh. I remember beating my head to a bruise against this one :-) >> >>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. > > > Thanks David, I have a hunch I would have been a while getting that > figured out. Probably clearly documented somewhere.
Documented in the ExtUtils::MakeMaker man page. Though you should upgrade ExtUtils::MakeMaker to the latest CPAN version to get PREFIX working properly. Matt. ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
