Re: cpan and install question

You said Makefile. Did you actually mean Makefile.PL? You can configure cpan to pass extra args to Makefile.PL via o conf makepl_arg. As long as you don't do o conf commit, the change will only last the session.

If you meant make, o conf make_arg is probably the equivalent.

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Re^2: cpan and install question by Anonymous Monk on Nov 16, 2009 at 18:13 UTC
I guess my issue is a bit differnet and applies specifically to the Alien::wxWidgets module. From the cpan prompt I use 'install Alien::wxWidgets' and starts to do it's thing and then asks if I would like to build Wx 2.8.10. If I choose yes it prompts me with a pre-set configuration for Wx Widgets 2.8.10 and one of the settings is shared libraries. This is what I want to disable but I'm not sure how to via the cpan shell. Any thoughts?	[reply]
Re^3: cpan and install question by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 16, 2009 at 19:24 UTC
Seems to me you shouldn't be using the cpan shell for this one. How do you disable it without using the shell?	[reply]
Re^4: cpan and install question by Anonymous Monk on Nov 16, 2009 at 19:44 UTC
as part of the wxWidgets install you can pass "--disable-shared"	[reply]
Re^5: cpan and install question by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 16, 2009 at 20:08 UTC