in reply to Catalyst question -- should I build my own perl for running as non-root in a hosted environment

a) Sounds useful to me.

b) It sounds a little extreme, but if Catalyst is really so broken that it can't respect a simple prefix setting then it might be a reasonable short-term solution until it gets fixed. Have you considered fixing it yourself?

c) When you compile Perl, tell it to install into a directory you control. Something like:

  sh Configure -Dprefix=~/perl

That will configure Perl to install below ~/perl. If you're completely new to compiling Perl, read this: INSTALL.

-sam

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