Hi, Tobi! Thanks for the quick response! Tobias Oetiker schrieb:

my 'idea' of proper language binding installation is to keep the bindings together with the application ... this is what happens when you install rrdtool with default settings.

you then have to put use lib qw(/path/to/install/point/lib/perl)

ACK!

in any event this is probably not appropriate for a distro

Yes.

... so ... what happens in our case (I guess) is that you configure perl with the option to install the perl modules into the default system location ... since I do not know where this is, I ask you local perl to install the stuff where it belongs according to perl ...

Okay, but... propably, I am missing something, but $ ./configure --help tells me: --enable-perl-site-install by default the rrdtool perl modules are installed together with rrdtool in $prefix/lib/perl. You have to put a 'use lib qw($prefix/lib/perl)' into your scripts when you want to use them. When you set this option the perl modules will get installed wherever your perl setup thinks it is best. Let me just repeat what my brain told me: With the default behaviour they should be installed in $prefix/lib/perl which would be okay and sufficient for me/us. But they went into /usr/lib/perl and not to $prefix/lib/perl !? Greets, Clemens Koller _______________________________ R&D Imaging Devices Anagramm GmbH Rupert-Mayer-Str. 45/1 81379 Muenchen Germany http://www.anagramm-technology.com Phone: +49-89-741518-50 Fax: +49-89-741518-19