Dealing with CPAN has always felt a little weird. Today I found a nice shortcut for getting perl modules installed in a home directory, which is really useful for when you don’t have admin on the box, or if you simply prefer to keep your custom perl stuff all cinched up in a tidy homedir for ease of administration (or if you have to use custom modules on a machine with no dev tools; you can build them on a dev box and then just scp the entire ~\/perl directory to where it’s needed).<\/p>\n
LocalModInstall<\/a> is a script that generates a modified Makefile for a perl module you wish to install, suitable for installing it into your home directory.<\/p>\n You would then ‘make’ and ‘make install’ like normal.<\/p>\n However, the ‘use lib’ suggestion that is supplied does not work in Mac OS X. The goods seem to be installed in ~\/perl\/lib\/perl5\/site_perl, which is not included in the suggested paths. Instead, I use:<\/p>\n Dealing with CPAN has always felt a little weird. Today I found a nice shortcut for getting perl modules installed in a home directory, which is really useful for when you don’t have admin on the box, or if you … Continue reading \r\n{42} andre@werk [work\/perl-ldap-0.33] % perl ~\/bin\/LocalModInstall.pl\r\n\/usr\/bin\/perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=\/Users\/andre\/perl \\\r\nINSTALLMAN1DIR=\/Users\/andre\/perl\/usr\/share\/man\/man1 \\\r\nINSTALLMAN3DIR=\/Users\/andre\/perl\/usr\/share\/man\/man3\r\n*** ExtUtils::AutoInstall version 0.59\r\n*** Checking for dependencies...\r\n[Core Features]\r\n- Convert::ASN1 ...loaded. (0.19 >= 0.07)\r\n[SASL authentication]\r\n- Authen::SASL ...loaded. (2.09 >= 2)\r\n- Digest::MD5 ...loaded. (2.33)\r\n[LDAP URLs]\r\n- URI::ldap ...loaded. (1.11 >= 1.1)\r\n[LDAPS]\r\n- IO::Socket::SSL ...missing. (would need 0.81)\r\n==> Auto-install the 1 optional module(s) from CPAN? [n] n\r\n[Read\/Write DSML files]\r\n- XML::SAX::Base ...loaded. (1.04)\r\n[Read\/Write LDIF files]\r\n- MIME::Base64 ...loaded. (3.05)\r\n*** ExtUtils::AutoInstall configuration finished.\r\nWriting Makefile for Net::LDAP\r\n\r\nDon't forget to\r\n\r\n use lib\r\n qw(\r\n \/Users\/andre\/perl\/System\/Library\/Perl\/5.8.6\/darwin-thread-multi-2level\r\n \/Users\/andre\/perl\/System\/Library\/Perl\/5.8.6\r\n \/Users\/andre\/perl\/Library\/Perl\/5.8.6\/darwin-thread-multi-2level\r\n \/Users\/andre\/perl\/Library\/Perl\/5.8.6\r\n );\r\n\r\nin your scripts (prior to any other \"use\" statements) or to set\r\n\r\n PERL5LIB=\"\/Users\/andre\/perl\/System\/Library\/Perl\/5.8.6\/darwin-thread-multi-2level\"\r\n PERL5LIB=\"$PERL5LIB:\/Users\/andre\/perl\/System\/Library\/Perl\/5.8.6\"\r\n PERL5LIB=\"$PERL5LIB:\/Users\/andre\/perl\/Library\/Perl\/5.8.6\/darwin-thread-multi-2level\"\r\n PERL5LIB=\"$PERL5LIB:\/Users\/andre\/perl\/Library\/Perl\/5.8.6\"\r\n export PERL5LIB\r\n\r\nin your shell (or shell configuration file) and to set\r\n\r\n MANPATH=\"$MANPATH:\/Users\/andre\/perl\/usr\/share\/man\/man1\"\r\n MANPATH=\"$MANPATH:\/Users\/andre\/perl\/usr\/share\/man\/man3\"\r\n export MANPATH\r\n\r\nin your shell (or shell configuration file).<\/pre>\nuse lib qw(\r\n\/path\/to\/home\/perl\/lib\/perl5\/site_perl );<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"