Hello fellow monks. I'm trying to help answer a question that's currently on the CGI-Mailing list, that I know I'm going to need to find the answer for myself in the next few weeks. It is as follows:

> This is the picture: I want to package my Perl application
> that relies on various other Perl Modules (CGI, DBI, DBD etc..)
> into a single distribution. System users should be able to install
> my application without having root access to the system. This
> means that all the supporting modules should be installed locally.
>
> I know it's possible to call the MakeMaker's Makefile.PL script
> with the PREFIX argument that defines the installation path for
> the modules. This seems to work fine for 'normal' modules but
> gives these errors for XS modules, like DBI:
>
> Can't load '../lib/lib/site_perl//i386-linux/auto/DBI/DBI.so' for mo
+dule
> DBI: ../lib/lib/site_perl//i386-linux/auto/DBI/DBI.so: undefined sym
+bol:
> dirty at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 169.
>
>  at ../lib/lib/site_perl//DBI.pm line 158
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../lib/lib/site_perl//DBI.pm li
+ne
> 158.
>
> This is just one example, but all the modules that rely on C extensi
+ons
> seem to give these undefined symbol errors.
>
> Anyone has a hint on this?

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Any help would be appreciated.

coreolyn Duct tape devotee.
-- That's OO perl, NOT uh-oh perl !-)

In reply to Storing Modules Local by coreolyn

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