Re: Installation location of Perl and Python modules

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>The question is which of the following installation schemes would be
>useful to provide, and which one should be the default.
>
>1. Install it under /usr/lib/perl5 (or whatever the default location).
>
>2. Install it under $prefix/lib/perl5, where $prefix is what is chosen for
> PostgreSQL. This would improve the likelyhood of write access to the
> location, give you a perlish layout, and (usually) fall back to the
> default if you specify --prefix=/usr. It might also be rather compliant
> to some file system standard.
>
>3. Install it under $prefix/lib/postgresql. This would guarantee
> write access, and enhance the consistency with the GNU-style configure
> process. It could also be compliant to some file system standard.
>
>4. Provide an option to freely choose the location. But keep in mind that
> "free to choose" also means "inconsistent" and "easy to get lost".

#2 sounds like the closest to what I need for building the Debian package,
which is to install to $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/perl5 in such a way that it will
work fine when $(DESTDIR) is copied to /. I also want the man page under
$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man. So the package ends up like this:

$ dpkg -L libpgperl
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libpgperl
/usr/share/doc/libpgperl/copyright
/usr/share/doc/libpgperl/README.gz
/usr/share/doc/libpgperl/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man3
/usr/share/man/man3/Pg.3pm.gz
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/postgresql
/usr/lib/postgresql/lib
/usr/lib/postgresql/lib/plperl.so
/usr/lib/perl5
/usr/lib/perl5/auto
/usr/lib/perl5/auto/Pg
/usr/lib/perl5/auto/Pg/Pg.so
/usr/lib/perl5/auto/Pg/Pg.bs
/usr/lib/perl5/auto/Pg/autosplit.ix
/usr/lib/perl5/Pg.pm

but has been built under $(DESTDIR).

I have to do a bit of tweaking at the moment to get it right.

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