Workaround for MailScanner RPM installation when using 'Perl from source'

[Julian Field]

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What's wrong with
./install.sh --perl=/usr/local/bin/perl
?

On 4 Oct 2005, at 21:26, Philip Hachey wrote:

> I have been using MailScanner for some time now.  I have it  
> installed on a
> WhiteBox 3 (clone of RHEL 3) server.  Prior to the recent MailScanner
> upgrade (via RPMs), I had installed the most recent version of Perl
> (5.8.7) from the source available at CPAN.  In addition to the  
> operating
> system RPM version of Perl (5.8.0) located under /usr/lib/perl5, I now
> have this new version of Perl located under /usr/local/lib/perl5.   
> I also
> swapped /usr/bin/perl with a symbolic link to /usr/local/bin/perl.
>
> When MailScanner installs, it recognizes both Perls, but during the
> installation of MailScanner's included Perl RPM modules, the paths it
> decides to use for the installation are /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7 and / 
> usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 .
>
> POSSIBLE FIX: The correct paths would have been used if, in the  
> spec file
> of each of the Perl RPMs, the call to 'perl Makefile.PL' did NOT  
> include
> the PREFIX argument.
>
> TEMPORARY WORKAROUND:  Before installing MailScanner, do the  
> following:
> # ln --symbolic /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7
> # ln --symbolic /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7
>
>
> There is an additional problem I've noticed that, after having used  
> CPAN
> to grab the latest version of various Perl modules, MailScanner  
> will still
> install a lower version: those modules marked "IsABundle" in  
> install.sh.
> Is this intentional?  Should I not be upgrading these modules via  
> CPAN?
>
> ----------------------------------
> Philip J. Hachey, BCS(High Hons)
> Programmer-Analyst
> City of Cornwall
>
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