Attempt to allow perl to be installed in non-standard locations

Signed-off-by: Mike Rylander <mrylander@gmail.com>

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index ed59a61..385115d 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ export PID                      = @localstatedir@/run/opensrf
 export SOCK                     = @localstatedir@/lock/opensrf
 export LOG                      = @localstatedir@/log/opensrf
 export srcdir                   = @srcdir@
+export PERL_BASE                = @PERL_BASE@
 opensrfincludedir               = @includedir@/opensrf
 
 AM_CFLAGS = $(DEF_CFLAGS)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index dd5d3a7..76bc293 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -202,6 +202,12 @@ if ! test -d "$APR_HEADERS"; then
 fi
 AC_SUBST([APR_HEADERS])
 
+AC_ARG_WITH([perlbase],
+[  --with-perlbase=path             base location to install Perl modules (default based on Config.pm)],
+[PERL_BASE=${withval}],
+[PERL_BASE=x])
+AC_SUBST([PERL_BASE])
+
 # The following Apache version detection code is adapted from
 # http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_prog_apache.html
 # licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License, or

diff --git a/src/perl/Makefile.am b/src/perl/Makefile.am
index 4f49264..f42e1c1 100644 (file)
--- a/src/perl/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/perl/Makefile.am
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ install: build-perl
        ./Build install
 
 build-perl:
-       perl Build.PL --destdir $(DESTDIR) || make -s build-perl-fail
+       @if [ "${PERL_BASE}" = 'x' ]; then perl Build.PL --destdir $(DESTDIR) || make -s build-perl-fail; else perl Build.PL --install_base ${PERL_BASE} --destdir $(DESTDIR) || make -s build-perl-fail; fi;
 
 build-perl-fail:
        echo