Ubuntu's Perl

[Bob Nielsen]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:29:01PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Anthony Gardner wrote:
> 
> > This is quite advanced, I think, so I'll keep it quite
> > high level.
> > 
> > The Perl that comes with hoary is compiled with cc.
> > Now, I have had to install a fresh version of Perl
> > under /opt (but that's not important) because I wanted
> > to install Apache/mod_perl and associated libs and
> > Apache (downloaded from apache.org) needs to be
> > compiled with gcc. thus, it needs Perl to be compiled
> > with gcc.
> 
> ??  Doesn't make sense to me...
> > 
> > Thirdly, why doess Ubuntu spread Perl all over the
> > place? It's in /usr, /usr/local, /etc (I think) and
> > probably even under /var.
> 
> Debian policy.  Though ubuntu (and Debian policy) doesn't put _anything_
> in /usr/local.  There's only two files in /etc/perl (on my system) and
> nothing in /var except the dpkg (install) files.  So Ubuntu's perl files
> are hardly installed "all over the place", but if you install any perl
> modules from CPAN instead of an ubuntu/debian repository they're likely to
> go to a different place.
> 

You can use dh-make-perl to Debianize CPAN modules, although every one I 
have needed already exists as a Debian/Ubuntu package.