On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Kevin Bailey
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On 17/10/12 06:41, Chris Travers wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Kevin
Bailey
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wrote:
How do I run the makefile code?
Should it be run as root?
Should I cd into the base directory of the LS files first?
Probably best to run it as root since it means installing
the dependencies.
Also it is best to avoid "make install" for 1.3, since it
means running make install on every minor upgrade. In trunk
(1.4), make install is supported for some types of
installations.
But the INSTALL file which comes with this 1.3 file says to run:
$ perl
Makefile.PL
$ make install
So what do you mean - probably best not to run "make install"?
This probably gets chalked up to a preferences thing, and I suppose in some installations it's the best move.
What make install does is copy the man pages extracted from POD and the Perl modules to system-appropriate directories. If this is done on every minor update, then this is no problem and it offers the advantage of being able to do things like man LedgerSMB::Form.
On the other hand, the reason for my preference is that by copying the Perl modules, sometimes people forget to run make install on the next time and it doesn't go to the new version on the Perl modules because the old modules are the ones that get run. Again, not a big deal. Just one of those things that can impact some deployments, and I personally think that make install on 1.3 causes more problems than it solves.
To be safe I am committing a patch to INSTALL to correct that.
Hope this helps,
Chris Travers