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I built ikiwiki using
% perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/ed
% make
% make install
This installs the files under /home/ed, for example one of the lines it prints is
cp -a basewiki/* /home/ed/share/ikiwiki/basewiki
However when I try to run ikiwiki I get an error as follows:
% ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ --url=http://membled.com/wiki/
Can't stat /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki: No such file or directory
at /home/ed/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/IkiWiki/Render.pm line 349
The PREFIX specified at build time should also affect the share directory -
it shouldn't try to use /usr/share here.
Actually, the PREFIX, no matter where you specify it, is only
intended to control where files are _installed_, not where they're
looked for at runtime.
There's a good reason not to make PREFIX be used to actually
change the program's behavior: Most packaging systems use PREFIX
when building the package, to make it install into a temporary
directory which gets packaged up.
It would probably be nice if ikiwiki offered a separate build-time
setting to control where it looked for its data files, though it already
offers a way to do it at runtime (--underlaydir and --templatedir).
--[[Joey]]
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