For reasons that I don't understand, it makes a difference where I attempt to install a CPAN module from.

I configured and built perl from /home/me/build/perl/perl-5.8.8 and have been attempting to configure and install CPAN modules from /home/me/build/perl-addons/tmp/<Module>. I've been trying to force ExtUtils::MakeMaker to recognize the perl directory by supplying a PERL_LIB and PERL_ARCHLIB.

If I simply work from /home/me/build/perl/perl-5.8.8/<Module> then ExtUtils::MakeMaker finds everything with no coercion necessary; the warnings about Config.pm and architecture go away.

This leads me to think that maybe I'm not passing the right parameters to perl Makefile.PL (currently PREFIX, PERL_LIB, and PERL_ARCHLIB). A quick read through ExtUtils::MakeMaker's perldoc seems to indicate that only PERL_LIB and PERL_ARCHLIB should be necessary. Setting PERL_SRC (which happens automatically when working from /home/me/build/perl/perl-5.8.8/<Module>) throws a warning when working out of /home/me/build/perl-addons/tmp/<Module>.

So, this allows me to accomplish what I'm trying to do, and even simplifies the process a little but I don't understand why ExtUtils::MakeMaker is behaving this way and why the flags that I was passing in before weren't sufficient.

In reply to Re: installing CPAN modules locally with a local perl installation by Anonymous Monk
in thread installing CPAN modules locally with a local perl installation by Anonymous Monk

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