in reply to Re^2: cpan when not as root
in thread cpan when not as root

I start cpan (perl -MCPAN -e shell) and set the configuration (o conf init) for perl Makefile.PL to PREFIX=~/perl LIB=~/perl, but what about make, make test, make install?

The "make" and "make install" will do the right thing based on having the "PREFIX=..." set for the "perl Makefile.PL" step. That prefix setting propogates through the following steps.

(If you've tried that and it doesn't work that way for you, then I'm confused -- it works that way for me on freebsd.)

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