dan2bit has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I read and implemented the suggestions in this node wrt a non-privileged user.

This hasn't helped me much with Compress::Zlib, which contains an auto directory. Despite my efforts to the contrary, CPAN.pm insists on trying to mkdir /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd/auto/Compress in a directory where I the lowly non-priv cannot.

I have makepl_arg set to PREFIX=/usr/home/broadsof/site_perl in conf, and I wonder if make_arg and make_install_arg can or should be "coached" in the same (or similar) way.

Other "pure perl" modules I have installed this way seem to work out fine, just ones with auto dependencies are problematic.

Any tips appreciated. {::} =D------an (sometimes the cord just doesn't quite reach)

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Re: Installing modules with 'auto' dependencies as non-privileged user
by blakem (Monsignor) on Nov 20, 2001 at 11:40 UTC
    This is just from memory, but I believe you'll want to set both make_arg and make_install_arg to: 
    -I/usr/home/broadsof/site_perl/lib

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    So, something like this might work: 
    % perl -MCPAN -e shell
> o conf makepl_arg PREFIX=/usr/home/broadsof/site_perl LIB=/usr/home/
+broadsof/site_perl/lib
> o conf make_arg -I/usr/home/broadsof/site_perl/lib
> o conf make_install_arg -I/usr/home/broadsof/site_perl/lib
> install Compress::Zlib

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    -Blake

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