Sorry, I left that part out... the install path is my home dir. perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/users/sean/MathSystem/ make make install ..which errs when it tries to mkdir /Library/Perl/darwin/auto/MathSystem/
Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No you shouldn't need to edit the Makefile.PL. I thought you were trying to install to a location other than in perl -V ???? To install inside of perl -v you will need administrator access, there is simply no way around the file permissions. If the user you are running make install from cannot write to the location it is trying to install to then make install will fail. ..------[ sean finnigan wrote (2002/10/31 at 12:57:11) ]------ | | >>>>Not being a Mac OS X user, is /System/Library/Perl the default | library location? | | Perl -V #shows @INC to be: | | /System/Library/Perl/Darwin | /System/Library/Perl | /Library/Perl/Darwin | /Library/Perl | /Library/Perl | /Network/Library/Perl/Darwin | /Network/Library/Perl | | Do I need to edit the LIB entry in Makefile.PL ? Or maybe something | with ExtUtils= from the make commandline? | `------------------------------------------------- No you shouldn't need to edit the Makefile.PL. I thought you were trying to install to a location other than in perl -V ???? To install inside of perl -v you will need administrator access, there is simply no way around the file permissions. If the user you are running make install from cannot write to the location it is trying to install to then make install will fail. --------------------------------- Frank Wiles http://frank.wiles.org --------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now
