How to get cpan2rpm to use /apps/non-standard/perl/bin/perl instead of /usr/bin/perl ?

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

Dear Wise Monks,

I am trying to use cpan2rpm to make RPM's from CPAN modules. The issue I am having is that the Perl executable I need use is /apps/non-standard/perl/bin/perl but cpan2rpm generates scripts that uses /apps/bin/perl. I tried making a symbolic link like so:

# cd /usr/bin
# rm perl
# ln -s /apps/non-standard/perl/bin/perl perl
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But cpan2rpm generates a RPM build script that fails with ...

+ find /var/tmp/perl-Algorithm-Interval2Prefix-0.02-root/usr -type d -
+depth -exec rmdir '{}' ';'
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.90654 (%install)
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The files and directories under /var/tmp/perl-Algorithm-Interval2Prefix-0.02-root/ are

# ls -l /var/tmp/perl-Algorithm-Interval2Prefix-0.02-root/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Mar 12 10:44 apps
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So how can I get cpan2rpm use something besides /usr/bin/perl ?

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Re: How to get cpan2rpm to use /apps/non-standard/perl/bin/perl instead of /usr/bin/perl ? by Plankton (Vicar) on Mar 12, 2010 at 21:40 UTC
Ooh! I found that I needed to create a ~/.rpmmacros file like so: `# cat .rpmmacros %_prefix /apps` [download]	[reply] [d/l]