Hi Monks,

The company I work for has perl and all it's libraries/modules/etc on a server that the rest of us mount from our local machines. Unfortunately, we don't have write access. So if we want to install perl modules that aren't already there, we have to put them in a different directory on our local machines. So in theory I should do something like set my PERL5LIB environmental variable to /my/perl/dir and then do:

perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/my/perl/dir
make
make test
make install

Unfortunately, when I do that, it still tries to install to the mounted directory on the server! If I look at Makefile after doing "perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/my/perl/dir", I see that PREFIX is set properly, but INSTALLPRIVLIB, INSTALLARCHLIB, INSTALLSITELIB, INSTALLSITEARCH, INSTALLBIN, and INSTALLSCRIPT are still pointing to directories on the server. Can anyone help? Just for the record, I did "echo $PERL5LIB" before doing all this just to make sure that the environmental variable did indeed get set. The modules I'm dealing with currently are GD and GDGraph.

In reply to Perl Modules In My Own Directory by Anonymous Monk

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