On Thursday, Sep 12, 2002, at 16:30 US/Pacific, Jeff wrote:
> I want to install some mods on my Unix system but don't have root > access. Is there > a way to do a local installation (ie, under my home directory)??? > Seems you have to > be root since there is some linking to the system libraries. > > I've checked the documentation for perlmodinstall, but don't see the > answer to this. > Thanks in advance, the answer is to set a few basic variables when you are doing the perl Makefile.pl I have a script I use, see below so that I have it all nice and neatly set to put it in $HOME/lib/perl with the man pages installing in $HOME/man rather than having to remember that it would be perl Makefile.pl PREFIX=$HOME LIB=$HOME/lib/perl .... ciao drieux --- ### #!/usr/bin/perl -w ### use strict; ### # ### #/home/drieux/bin/PerlInstall - you know to install stuff locally ### # ### ### my $prefix = $ENV{HOME}; ### my $lib = "$prefix/lib/perl"; ### my $man = "$prefix/man"; ### my $cmdArgs = "PREFIX=$prefix LIB=$lib "; ### $cmdArgs .= " INSTALLMAN3DIR=$man/man3 INSTALLMAN1DIR=$man/man1"; ### ### my $cmd = "perl Makefile.PL $cmdArgs"; ### ### system("make clean"); ### ### ### system($cmd); ### system("make test"); ### system("make install"); -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]