./configure --prefix=/home/reliant/shaw/.local

Sometimes it's easier to just build a static library: 
./configure --enable-static --disable-shared --prefix=/home/reliant/sh
+aw/.local

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Of course, it shouldn't be necessary to do that. But it can save some aggravation :-)

You still set $expat_libpath and $expat_incpath the same as you've already done ... and it should work ok. Worked fine for me on Windows - only problem was that I had to copy lib/expat.h and lib/expat_external.h to the tests folder to get 'make check' to run successfully when building expat-2.0.0.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re: Installing XML::Parser (with expat) by syphilis
in thread Installing XML::Parser (with expat) by dorko

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