path to man3

tdesantis has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Somewhere I've mis-configured my path to man3. When using the CPAN shell, my 'make test' points to the proper perl installation:

Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /home/desantis/perl64root/perl/bin/perl "-Iblib/lib"
+ "-Iblib/arch" -w test.pl
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But 'make install' tries to put man3 under tdesantis instead of desantis.

Running make install
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+!!
ERROR: Can't create '/home/tdesantis/perl64root/perl/man/man3'
mkdir /home/tdesantis: Operation not applicable at /home/desantis/perl
+64root/perl/lib/5.8.8/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 478
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I read and followed the excellent advice: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=605420 and added the following to my makepl_arg key in CPAN/Config.pm:

INSTALLMAN3DIR=/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/man/man3
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as well as this to my .modulebuildrc:

--installpath libdoc=/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/man/man3
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But still no luck. What am I overlooking?

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Re: path to man3 by ysth (Canon) on Jun 04, 2007 at 08:31 UTC
What does `/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/bin/perl -V:'.man3.'` [download] say? I'm guessing you want to provide INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR in makepl_arg instead.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: path to man3 by tdesantis (Initiate) on Jun 04, 2007 at 08:45 UTC
I've set that one as well. The -V flag shows the config problem. See below. 'makepl_arg' => q[INSTALLARCHLIB=/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/lib INSTALLBIN=/home/desantis/bin INSTALLMAN1DIR=/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/man/man1 INSTALLMAN3DIR=/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/man/man3 INSTALLPRIVLIB=/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/lib INSTALLSCRIPT=/home/desantis/bin INSTALLSITEARCH=/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/lib INSTALLSITEBIN=/home/desantis/bin INSTALLSITELIB=/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/lib INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR=/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/man/man1 INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR=/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/man/man3 INSTALLVENDORARCH=/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/lib INSTALLVENDORBIN=/home/desantis/bin INSTALLVENDORLIB=/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/lib INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR=/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/man/man1 INSTALLVENDORMAN3DIR=/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/man/man3], > /home/desantis/perl64root/perl/bin/perl -V:'.man3.' installman3dir='/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/man/man3'; installsiteman3dir='/home/tdesantis/perl64root/perl/man/man3'; installvendorman3dir=''; man3dir='/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/man/man3'; man3direxp='/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/man/man3'; man3ext='3'; siteman3dir='/home/tdesantis/perl64root/perl/man/man3'; siteman3direxp='/home/tdesantis/perl64root/perl/man/man3'; vendorman3dir=' '; vendorman3direxp=''; [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: path to man3 by shmem (Chancellor) on Jun 04, 2007 at 09:46 UTC
`installman3dir='/home/desantis/perl64root/perl/man/man3'; installsiteman3dir='/home/tdesantis/perl64root/perl/man/man3'; ^ \| here ---------------------+` [download] Glitch in your config. Quick fix: create the symbolic link `ln -s desantis /home/tdesantis` [download] but that's a hack. Start over and configure properly :-) --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply] [d/l] [select]