| Subject: | local lib bootstrap install error? |
| Date: | Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:50:02 -0500 |
| To: | "bug-local-lib [...] rt.cpan.org" <bug-local-lib [...] rt.cpan.org> |
| From: | "Doran, Michael D" <doran [...] uta.edu> |
local-lib-2.000007
perl v5.12.4
linux: CentOS release 5.5
I was trying to follow the bootstrap install instructions for local lib. When I run this command:
perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap
I get this error:
Unknown import argument: --bootstrap at lib/local/lib.pm line 61.
Makefile.PL is apparently setting the $path variable to "--bootstrap" in this code (lines 100 & 101 of Makefile.PL):
if (my ($x) = grep { /^--bootstrap(?:=.*)?$/ } @ARGV) {
(my $path = $x) =~ s/^.*?=//;
...and passing that to local::lib.
I can verify that by adding this debug print line to Makefile.PL just before the local::lib import:
print "path is $path" . "\n";
local::lib->import($path || ());
When I set an explicit path with this command:
perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap=~/perl5
Everything works fine.
I used this code to illustrate the behavior (uncommenting to see the different results):
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my @ARGV = ('--bootstrap=~/whatever');
#my @ARGV = ('--bootstrap');
if (my ($x) = grep { /^--bootstrap(?:=.*)?$/ } @ARGV) {
(my $path = $x) =~ s/^.*?=//;
print "path is $path" . "\n";
}
-- Michael
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