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Unwanted overwriting (Score:2)
Someone, who might prefer to remain nameless, hosed his perl install by running
make installwith ponie. The problem here is that the FreeBSD perl uses a mass ofConfigurearguments to set each library install directory independently, and ponie'sConfigure.plwas passing on every argument it didn't recognise to configure ponie. The upshot is that ponie would install all over the (say) 5.8.7 directories. This prompted 2 changes. Firstly removing all the explicit prefix setting [perl.org] and secondly stopping people i [perl.org]The CPAN version is safe. (Score:2)
It seems it's caused by last night's huge refactoring of Makefile.PL in lib/ after I went to sleep, so the bug only stayed around for a few hours.
And yes, ironically it was me who hosed my Perl by installing ponie. Karmic cycle and all that. :-)
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Re:The CPAN version is safe. (Score:2)
Heh :) No offense, but that's hilarious.
I have everything up and running again, so no long-term harm done.