From: pjfarley AT banet DOT net (Peter J. Farley III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: perl5/DJGPP: Why are default install dirs for modules "blib/..."?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:55:37 GMT
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Laszlo Molnar <laszlo DOT molnar AT eth DOT ericsson DOT se> wrote:
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>AFAIK, the blib directory structure is temporary. It's only used during
>"make test" to find the files which are not yet installed. After make
>install the files go into their "normal" place.
>
>At least it should work like this. :-/

Understood.  I found that out myself in doing more research on the
problem, but I had already posted this message.

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>> TIA for any help or info you can provide, including necessary RTFM's.
>
>Look at lib/perl5/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm and friends.

I have, but (as you know from my subsequent posting) the real problem
is MakeMaker not finding a perl executable.  I will defer further
comments to that thread, to keep the problem discusstion on-topic.

Thank you for your gentle response to a "module newbie".

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