niqola has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all,

I have some problem for installing a module from source. There are two users on the target machine (ubuntu) for the installation. Each user did same instructions as usual:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
sudo make install

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But for user1, the module is installed in /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 and for user2 in /home/user2/perl5/lib/perl5

I don't understand why?

Thank for your help.

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Re: default install directory for modules
by tobyink (Canon) on Mar 07, 2013 at 11:23 UTC

    Are they using the same copy of Perl itself? Run:

    which perl

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    ... at the command line for each user.

    package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name
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      Hi tobyink,

      Yes, both gives /usr/bin/perl

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Re: default install directory for modules ( ExtUtils::MakeMaker )
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 07, 2013 at 11:40 UTC

    I don't understand why?

    If you look inside Makefile.PL you will see it uses, ExtUtils::MakeMaker

    ExtUtils::MakeMaker lists many options like INSTALL_BASE ... which can be specified in different ways

    RTFM to the rescue again

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      Hi, Anonymous Monk,

      Yes, i know it.

      But, in this case no INSTALL_BASE option is specified for both users. So, i'm looking for where the default value is configured and i can't find.

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        The answer was in the link. Do

        perl "-V:install.*"

        As each user. One of the users probably has a .cpan directory with a MyConfig.pm.

        -derby
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        Yes, i know it...

        :) no you don't, click the link and read it

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      Is it possible that from cpan configuration?

      In this case, how to change it?

      Thanks again.

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        Yeah, read the link, I posted it for you
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Re: default install directory for modules
by vinoth.ree (Monsignor) on Mar 07, 2013 at 12:00 UTC

    I guess the user2 could have used the perl Makefile.PL PREFIX="path"

    Install the same module using the cpan command and check where it is installing?

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      The user2 has environment variables PERL_MM_OPT defined in his bash config file.

      Thank you very mush for all your helps!

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        Did you use perl -V to figure that out? 

        $ perl -V  |tail -n8 |head -n3
  %ENV:
    PERL_MB_OPT=" --config installhtmldir=  --binhtml= "
    PERL_MM_OPT="shamalamadingdong"

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