Bruce, That’s OK, and I agree that it’s better to use sudo only for the installation. I’ve adjusted the wiki page accordingly and I’ll fix the manual later.
Regards, John Ralls > On Oct 6, 2024, at 11:01, Bruce Schuck <bsch...@asgard-systems.com> wrote: > > On 10/5/24 20:07, John Ralls wrote: > >> Interesting, I didn’t know that MyCpan.pm defaulted make install to >> run under sudo. FWIW I’ve been running sudo cpan on macOS for almost >> 20 years with no ill effects. > > Frack, I am sorry, my mistake and I have to eat crow. Seems when cpan first > sets up MyConfig.pm if there isn't any, the default is "local::lib" and not > "sudo". When I set up a new environment I barely pay attention to the > defaults since I typically set up two MyConfig.pm files. One with sudo and > one with "local::lib". I will have sometimes have two or three different > PERL5LIB settings and create short source scripts for each that set a bunch > of CPAN related Perl environment variables and symlink MyConfig.pm from a > MyConfig.pm.local. > > Still, running "sudo cpan" from a user account is not the "Perl" way and even > before I started contributing to F::Q, I used "cpan" to install F::Q (with > MyConfig.pm set to use sudo for installs) and not the GnuCash supplied tool. > > Bruce S _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
