Re: Knowing INSTALL_BASE value

[email protected] (Michael G Schwern) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:44:29 -0700

Newsgroups	perl.makemaker
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Alberto SimÃµes wrote:
> Michael G Schwern wrote:
>> Alberto SimÃµes wrote:
>>> is there any change on getting the current 'guess' for INSTALL_BASE 
>>> (the default, or the one supplied by the user on the command line) 
>>> before running the WriteMakefile function?
>>
>> I smell an X/Y problem.  Why do you need to know that?
>>
> Probably I won't need it on Makefile.PL, and need it on another script. 
> There I can probably grep the Makefile and check if there is that variable.

There's much better ways to get at that information, but why do you need to 
know that?


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