[mapserver-users] compiling Perl/Mapscript takes time

[Lowell Filak]

Here's a stab at it. "make install" simply moves all the files that are needed into the locations they need to be, from what I've seen. You could do a "make install" on a second machine without recompiling however there is one hitch, when the install runs it usually does a move instead of a copy so if you were to tar the contents of the compile directory, copy it to the other machine, & "make install" it wouldn't find most of the files to install. I have to defer how to change this to someone else.
Lowell F.

The following message was sent by Puneet Kishor <pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com> on Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:12:23 -0600.

> Steve,
> 
> You were right... I was too impatient. I successfully compiled
> Perl/Mapscript yesterday. It took about 9 mins... no activity at all, and
> then, pow!
> 
> It works sweet. Thanks. Are any of your Perl/Mapscript example source files
> available for download? That would really help, combined with Lowell's docs.
> 
> (Now, there is that matter of GDAL, Proj.4, etc. that I have to tackle.
> Hoping to hear from Frank, or someone else.)
> 
> Btw, could you (or someone else... Lowell, perhaps) explain to me what "make
> install" does? The reason I ask is... how could I move the mapscript.pm
> module to another computer (same OS, of course) without having to recompile
> it? It is not just a matter of copying the .pm file to the Perl modules
> library, is it?
> 
> Tia,
> 
> pk/