[Canberra-pm] Trying to use cpan to install PERL modules into a non-root directory [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[John.Hockaday at ga.gov.au]

Hi All,

Sorry to bother you again.  Our IT section is too busy to load some PERL CPAN
modules for me so I thought that I would use cpan to load some modules into a
local directory so that I can start using them.

I don't have root permission and latest perl is in:

	/opt/csw/bin/perl

It is PERL 5.8.8.

We also have versions PERL 5.00503 loaded into:

	/web/apps/perl/perl5/5.00503/

If I do a cpan DBI on a command line I get the following:

###############
...
  CPAN.pm: Going to build T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.602.tar.gz
...

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
'INSTALLLIB' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name.
'INSTALL_BASE' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name.
'PERL_INC' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name.

You cannot build extensions below the perl source tree after executing
a 'make clean' in the perl source tree.
To rebuild extensions distributed with the perl source you should
simply Configure (to include those extensions) and then build perl as
normal. After installing perl the source tree can be deleted. It is
not needed for building extensions by running 'perl Makefile.PL'
usually without extra arguments.

It is recommended that you unpack and build additional extensions away
from the perl source tree.
Warning: PERL_LIB (/opt/csw/lib/perl/lib) seems not to be a perl library
directory
        (Exporter.pm not found) at
/opt/csw/share/perl/5.8.8/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
 line 1668.

    I see you're using perl 5.008008 on sun4-solaris-thread-multi, okay.
    Remember to actually *read* the README file!
    Use  'make' to build the software (dmake or nmake on Windows).
    Then 'make test' to execute self tests.
    Then 'make install' to install the DBI and then delete this working
    directory before unpacking and building any DBD::* drivers.

Writing Makefile for DBI
make: *** No rule to make target `/opt/csw/lib/perl/config.sh', needed by
`/opt/csw/lib/perl/lib/Config.pm'.  Stop.
  /usr/local/bin/make  -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
#######################

I see three problems here. 

1. cpan is finding perl 5.008008 and not perl 5.8.8 in /opt/csw/bin/perl.

2. cpan doesn't like /usr/local/bin/make on the SunOS marl 5.8
Generic_117350-49 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R platform.

3. cpan doesn't recognise the parameters that I have passed to 'makepl_arg'
yet they are valid in the MakeMaker documentation.


I seem to remember that Sun make files are no good and that we need to use
something like gcc but I can't remember the details.  Can anyone help?
  
Also, what settings to I use in 'makepl_arg' to get cpan to use 

	/opt/csw/bin/perl to find the binaries,
	/opt/csw/lib/perl to find the perl libraries,
	/opt/csw/lib/perl/site_perl to find some CPAN modules,

	/public/data/asddgate/bin/perl for any new binaries,
	/public/data/asddgate/lib/perl for any new libraries,
	/public/data/asddgate/lib/perl/site_perl for the CPAN Modules,
	/public/data/asddgate/man for the man pages.

Note that the /opt/csw/ directories are owned by root and I can't write to
them.  Hence my need to load packages into /public/data/asddgate/...

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

I have configured cpan as follows:

$CPAN::Config = {
  'build_cache' => q[0],
  'build_dir' => q[/public/asddadm/.cpan/build],
  'cache_metadata' => q[1],
  'cpan_home' => q[/public/asddadm/.cpan],
  'dontload_hash' => {  },
  'ftp' => q[/usr/bin/ftp],
  'ftp_proxy' => q[proxy.agso.gov.au:8080],
  'getcwd' => q[cwd],
  'gpg' => q[/opt/csw/bin/gpg],
  'gzip' => q[/opt/csw/bin/gzip],
  'histfile' => q[/public/asddadm/.cpan/histfile],
  'histsize' => q[100],
  'http_proxy' => q[proxy.agso.gov.au:8080],
  'inactivity_timeout' => q[0],
  'index_expire' => q[1],
  'inhibit_startup_message' => q[0],
  'keep_source_where' => q[/public/asddadm/.cpan/sources],
  'lynx' => q[ ],
  'make' => q[/usr/local/bin/make],
  'make_arg' => q[],
  'make_install_arg' => q[],
  'makepl_arg' => q[PREFIX=/public/data/asddgate PERL_INC=/opt/csw/bin/perl
PERL
_SRC=/opt/csw/lib/perl INSTALLBIN=/public/data/asddgate/bin/perl
INSTALLLIB=/pub
lic/data/asddgate/lib/perl INSTALL_BASE=/public/data/asddgate],
  'ncftpget' => q[/usr/local/bin/ncftpget],
  'no_proxy' => q[proxy.agso.gov.au:8080],
  'pager' => q[/usr/bin/less],
  'prerequisites_policy' => q[follow],
  'proxy_pass' => q[D847vt],
  'proxy_user' => q[asddadm],
  'scan_cache' => q[atstart],
  'shell' => q[/usr/bin/sh],
  'tar' => q[/usr/local/bin/tar],
  'term_is_latin' => q[1],
  'unzip' => q[/usr/bin/unzip],
  'urllist' => [q[http://cpan.mirrors.ilisys.com.au]],
  'wget' => q[/opt/csw/bin/wget],
};
1;
__END__


Thanks.

 John Hockaday
 john.hockaday\@ga.gov.au