Installing perl-only .pm modules locally??

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

I have failed twice to get this to work. I find some niche module on CPAN, which is just a single .pm file containing perl code. Everything looks good, functions are exported, etc. The two packages are initialized thusly:

use Beep;

and, in another attempt in seperate file:

use Local:TeeOutput;

The common point here is that I don't know how to install these in a nice place, so have been testing them out by putting e.g., Beep.pm in the pwd and TeeOutput.pm in ./Local/ . This was what everything I found online told me would work. It does not. I get the following errors when trying to access functions clearly exported within these files:

Undefined subroutine &main::beep called at ./beep.pl line 5.

Previously I had figured out how to make my perl program find the /Local/ directory I had created, and now that I'm writing this I can't repeat that, so my new problem for that case is that @INC seems to be ignoring it's own contents?

Can't locate TeeOutput.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /(my pwd)/ ./ /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at ./test3.pl line 4. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./test3.pl line 4.

I can post more info, but I have a feeling I'm just doing something very obviously dumb to anyone who knows what's going on.

Thanks for your wonderful site!

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Re: Installing perl-only .pm modules locally?? by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on May 12, 2009 at 19:33 UTC
Check out the `use lib` pragma, to tell it where you put your private stash. Or, use the current directory. Note that the nested namespaces imply subdirectories of that name. —John	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Installing perl-only .pm modules locally?? (cpan custom lib) by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 12, 2009 at 21:21 UTC
In my login script, I have `export PERL5LIB=~/lib/perl5` [download] To install a module, Pure Perl or otherwise, I do `perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~ LIB=~/lib/perl5 make make test make install` [download] I actually use the `cpan` tool, which allows you to specify command line parameters for Makefile.PL. Do so (once) using: `o conf makepl_arg PREFIX=~ LIB=~/lib/perl5 o conf commit` [download] Caveat: `PERL5LIB` isn't honoured when taint checking is enabled. Add the following to such scripts to make them work: `use lib '/home/ikegami/lib/perl5';` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Installing perl-only .pm modules locally?? by toolic (Bishop) on May 12, 2009 at 20:30 UTC
I use the `PERL5LIB` ENVIRONMENT variable to add directories to `@INC`, for example: `$ setenv PERL5LIB /home/me/lib` [download] See also: Tutorials -> Modules: How to Create, Install, and Use -> A Guide to Installing Modules and Simple Module Tutorial	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Installing perl-only .pm modules locally?? by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on May 12, 2009 at 19:35 UTC
P.S. Welcome to the monastery.	[reply]