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Reini Urban wrote:
> And I have to add that packaging perl is really hard, because I haven't got yet
> the chroot trick to work when packaging it.
> Modules hardcode absolute paths and install into hardcoded places, so it had
> has to be done into the live tree and picking up the mass of new files
> installed
> there is a mess - done with a timestamp.

Did you look at how Gentoo deals with this:

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.8.8-r4.ebuild

And in particular this patch:

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/perl/files/perl-5.8.7-MakeMaker-RUNPATH.patch


Yaakov
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