I'm trying to build a local copy of perl in /home/moseley. This is on linux (debian potato). /home/moseley is a symlink to a nfs mounted directory: 

/home/moseley -> .nfs1/moseley

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where .nfs1 is a nfs mount, of course. Here's the basic problem: 
[moseley]:~ $pwd  
/home/moseley

[moseley]:~ $ls ..
ls: ..: Permission denied

[moseley]:~ $ls /home | head
1
2
3

[moseley]:~/build/perl-5.8.0 $perl -MFindBin -le 'print $FindBin::Bin'
opendir(./../../..): Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/FindBin
+.pm line 97

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Perl uses FindBin during the build and install process. Perl 5.6.1 fails make test in lib/findbin and lib/findfile and make install fails. Perl 5.8.0 fails even Configure.

The ISP is not very responsive, so is there any way to get perl to build and install locally?

In reply to Installation: Perl failing to install on NFS mount by moseley

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