Re^4: change where CPAN places Modules

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Re^5: change where CPAN places Modules - Help Please by Anonymous Monk on May 02, 2017 at 01:30 UTC
so for using that "sh Configure -Dprefix=~/p-5.18.0/" I have to re-install perl? Yes See , you're not supposed to mess with your system perl, you're just supposed to use system tools to add modules to it (yum, apt ...) So you install a second/additional "local" perl ... and then it knows where to install modules without needing those extra env vars Root simply uses "/user/local/bin/cpan" to install modules into "/user/local/perl/..." Root tells his users to use "/user/local/bin/perl" All the users use "#!/user/local/bin/perl --" for shebang and things just work Now if the users want extra stuff from cpan they use PERL5LIB/INSTALL_BASE... and they don't bother root about it or other users	[reply]

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so for using that "sh Configure -Dprefix=~/p-5.18.0/" I have to re-install perl?

Yes

See , you're not supposed to mess with your system perl, you're just supposed to use system tools to add modules to it (yum, apt ...)

So you install a second/additional "local" perl ... and then it knows where to install modules without needing those extra env vars

Root simply uses "/user/local/bin/cpan" to install modules into "/user/local/perl/..."

Root tells his users to use "/user/local/bin/perl"

All the users use "#!/user/local/bin/perl --" for shebang and things just work

Now if the users want extra stuff from cpan they use PERL5LIB/INSTALL_BASE... and they don't bother root about it or other users