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in thread Find file name

I'm definately an unprivileged user and 
shell> perl -MCPAN -e shell

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.65)
ReadLine support enabled

cpan> o conf makepl_arg PREFIX="/your/path/to/perl/lib"

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- what is this doing exactly ? I am interested but I doubt whether I could do this anyway for fear of messing the system up. Thanks

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Find file name
by broquaint (Abbot) on Nov 11, 2003 at 17:30 UTC
    It just passes the PREFIX to the Makefile.PL when the module is being built automatically, as described in the manpage: 
    makepl_arg         arguments passed to 'perl Makefile.PL

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    Which allows you to install module via CPAN to a user-defined path.
    HTH

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