Re: Local CPAN help

Looking at the section on config variables, it appears maybe the makepl_arg and mbuild_install_arg variables may be the ones you wish to set. (I haven't tried them myself, but those two are described as arguments passed to perl Makefile.PL and ./Build install, respectively.) So likely the following would be used:

$CPAN::Config = {
  # ...possibly other options...
  'makepl_arg' => q[INSTALL_BASE=/opt/local],
  'mbuild_install_arg => q[--install_base /opt/local],
  # ...possibly other options...
};
1;
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HTH.

Updated (2008-09-13): changed single-quotes to q regexp quote-like operator (as found in my local CPAN/Config.pm).

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Re^2: Local CPAN help by wrinkles (Pilgrim) on Sep 14, 2008 at 08:34 UTC
Local, non-root cpan eludes me. I've read through the documentation, tried all the reasonable configurations in MyConfig.pm, and still run into errors during most cpan installs. Manual installation works for me nearly every time, with the single "install_base" argument.	[reply]