One of the (few?) benefits of using cpan over cpanm is that you can use the distroprefs [1] functionality to automatically apply local patches when installing from CPAN. Mixing cpan and cpanm makes for an awkward workflow, but I don't know of a cpanm equivalent.
[1] http://perldoc.perl.org/CPAN.html#Configuration-for-individual-distributions-(_Distroprefs_) On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 12:53 PM Martin J. Evans <martin.ev...@easysoft.com> wrote: > On 01/11/2018 16:23, Karen Etheridge wrote: > > You can install these modules again by setting PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC=1 in > your environment while installing. > > Yes, thanks. However, I did not name all of my problems and only one of > them was @INC issue. The other problem is modules which won't build for > other reasons that need patches not applied e.g. WWW::Curl. > > You can also install locally patched modules with carton by specifying a ' > file:///' path in cpanfile: > > requires 'Foo::Bar', '0.123', url => ' > file:///local/path/Foo-Bar-0.123.tar.gz'; > > This is will do nicely for all my issues. Thank you. I was only aware of > dist/url. > > Martin > > >
