easy introduction to perl

[Ash Berlin]

nik wrote:
> Peter Corlett wrote:
>> On 6 Oct 2007, at 20:15, Matt S Trout wrote:
>> Umm, Catalyst is the archetype of hard-to-install CPAN modules.
> 
> Coincidentally, I'm going through this at the moment.  I'm trying to 
> install Catalyst and its dependencies in to a private directory 
> structure, so that I can determine whether or not I want changes to 
> modules installed under the normal Perl library tree to affect it or not.
> 
> At the moment the process has consisted of configuring CPAN with a 
> non-default module install path (in CPAN.pm
> 
>      'mbuildpl_arg' => q[--install_base /home/nik/blog-lib],
> 
> ) and then
> 
>    mkdir $HOME/blog-lib
>    setenv PERL5LIB \
>      $HOME/blog-lib/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8:$PERL5LIB
>    setenv PERL5LIB \
>      $HOME/blog-lib/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach:$PERL5LIB
>    env TEST_VERBOSE=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'
>    install Task::Catalyst
> 
> It's going reasonably well so far (although I really should have told 
> CPAN.pm to automatically follow dependencies).
> 
> I am slightly bemused as to why PERL5LIB needs the .../5.8.8 *and* 
> .../5.8.8/mach directories.  I thought the one would have inferred the 
> other.
> 
> That, and Catalyst::Controller::FormBuilder appears to assume it's 
> installing in to /usr/local/lib.
> 
> N


Try using local::lib - it should make the job easier.