APM: installing modules on a virtual server

[Brian Little]

   Setting PERL5LIB to ~/perl isn't going to point to the right place (i.e.
~/perl5lib).  If you're using bash and you're installing your modules into perl5lib
then you might want to try

      export PERL5LIB=~/perl5lib



--- Sam Foster <austin.pm at sam-i-am.com> wrote:

> (excuse the top posting.. I did trim a little honest)
> I did some searching yesterday and came up with this:
> http://www.bluereef.net/support/extensions/development/perlmodown.html
> 
> I'm using bash.
> 	setenv PERL5LIB ~/perl
> gives me the error that setenv is not available.
> 
> 	export PERL5LIB=~/perl
> gave me nothing.
> I also tried
> 	perl -MCPAN -Mlib -e "unshift(@INC, '~/perl5lib');print join(\"\n\", 
> @INC); shell;"
> 
> and this worked in that it printed out @INC and showed it to include 
> ~/perl5lib.. But when I went to cpan> test , it was still not picking up 
> the dependancies even after I let it install them again.
> E.g. to install File::Slurp, it runs tests which want Test::More. 
> Test::More wants Test::Harness. Each time it spots the dependancy, 
> installs the module, but the test still fails as it cant find it (in 
> ~/perl5lib)
> This is a trivial example, and I could probably make it skip those 
> tests, but with others (e.g XML::LibXML) it becomes more of a hassle.
> 
> Which brings me back to setenv PERL5LIB.. still no word back from tech 
> support on that one (they said they were getting a technician to look at 
> it.. and there's me thinking I'd called technical support :)
> 
> Sam
> 
> 
> Taylor Carpenter wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:00:23 -0500, "Sam Foster"
> > <austin.pm at sam-i-am.com> said:
> > 
> >>Apparently I should be able to do:
> >>% setenv PERL5LIB ~/perl5lib
> >>but setenv is also apparently not available.
> > 
> > Did you try export PERL5LIB (after doing PERL5LIB=~/perl5lib)?  For bash
> > you can do 
> >    export PERL5LIB=~/perl5lib
> > but for some shells you have to first set then export the variable. 
> > Be sure to add
> >    use lib '/path/to/my/perl5lib'; 
> > to your scripts.
> > 
> > For CPAN you want the following set when configuring CPAN
> > 
> >    makepl_arg: PREFIX=~/perl5lib/
> >    cpan_home: /path/to/my/perl5lib/ANY_NAME_YOU_WANT
> > 
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