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i didn't find one in your blog.
Did you actually try this? I did, and it fails, for reasons I did explain in the blog. ("...the first thing everyone says is that you can just set PREFIX to X. No, because...")

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Re^3: Installing modules to a private module directory
by Mutant (Priest) on Apr 22, 2008 at 08:08 UTC

    Instead of PREFIX, you can use INSTALL_BASE, which I believe is now the perferred option for Module::Build and ExtUtils::MakeMaker (so long as you have up-to-date versions of both). I haven't had a problem with this, altho I haven't installed all of CPAN with it.

    You still run into the problem of setting your @INC, since things seem to randomly install in a subdirectory called either 'site_perl', 'perl5' or '5.x.x', meaning you have to add 3 entries to your @INC. This can be annoying if your paths can change depending on the box you're working on.

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Re^3: Installing modules to a private module directory
by tinita (Parson) on Apr 22, 2008 at 08:15 UTC
    Did you actually try this?
    otherwise i wouldn't ask.
    maybe i just don't get it, but it has always worked for me to install my modules with setting PREFIX and LIB. i just asked for an example. show me a module where it doesn't work. that's all i asked for. i would be really interested because i use the PREFIX/LIB method for my cgipan script and i would like to correct it if it has got a mistake.
    in your blog you gave the reason why it doesn't work to set PREFIX. but you didn't say that using PREFIX and LIB together fails.
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      You might try DBI. That seems to be at least one example case, based on the context given in his blog.

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        You might try DBI.
        it works here on my machine: 
        $ perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/tmp/foo LIB=/tmp/foo/lib
$ make
$ make install
$ perl -wle'
use lib "/tmp/foo/lib";
use DBI;
print $INC{"DBI.pm"}'
/tmp/foo/lib/i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi/DBI.pm

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