I want to install a mod_perl enabled apache version into my home directory /home/andrew

I unpack apache and mod_perl and then issue:

perl Makefile.PL APACHE_SRC=../apache_1.3.33/src APACHE_PREFIX=/home/andrew/apache DO_HTTPD=1 USE_APACI=1

make and make test work fine but when I go to make install it complains: 

Warning: You do not have permissions to install into /usr/lib/perl5/si
+te_perl/i386-linux at /home/andrew/cpan/lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 
+114.
Cannot forceunlink /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/i386-linux/auto/Apache/Sym
+bol/Symbol.so: Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/File/Find.pm line 
+495
make: *** [pure_site_install] Error 255

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It looks like it is trying to install perl modules into the system-wide directory and not in my home directory.

When I cpan install modules they go to /home/andrew/cpan just fine.

How do I tell the mod_perl installer to put its modules into my home directory and not the system-wide one?

Moreover, is there a generalized way to do this from a perl Makefile.PL?

-Andrew.

Andrew Tomazos  |  andrew@tomazos.com  |  www.tomazos.com

In reply to Installing mod_perl without root access by tomazos

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