[comp.lang.perl] Install request

les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) (01/22/91)

This isn't specific to perl, but if Larry does it maybe it will catch
on...

I tend to compile things on one machine, then shuffle the binaries
around to several others using whatever means happens to be handy.
It would make the process much easier if the "install" option of
the Makefile wrote an "install.log" containing the full pathnames of
the files as they are installed.  This list could then be used to create
a cpio file for binary distribution or editted into something more
complicated.  I often compile versions for at least two machine
types in the same source directory over RFS mounts, so anything
more complicated than a list of installed names is likely to fail.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us