Hey Ken, On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 08:03:08PM -0600, Ken Williams wrote: > > On Feb 6, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Bill Moseley wrote: > > >How do I setup CPAN.pm to work with both MakeMaker and Module::Build? > > > >I want to install *all* modules locally using CPAN.pm. > > > > > > 'makepl_arg' => q[INSTALLDIRS=site PREFIX=/home/moseley/local], > > You have a couple options here if you install recent-enough versions of > M::B and/or MakeMaker. The recent betas of M::B support --prefix, > which is the same as MakeMaker's PREFIX, and the latest versions > (betas?) of MakeMaker support INSTALL_BASE, which is the same as M::B's > --install_base.
Seems unfortunate that for something as mature as Perl I need betas to install language extensions, no? > >Yet, if I use: > > > > 'makepl_arg' => q[INSTALLDIRS=site > >install_base=/home/moseley/local], > > > >Then installs fail due to "bin" not being based on the install_base. > > I'm not sure I understand this - could you elaborate on how it fails? > Is this using Module::Build or using MakeMaker? I have a Catalyst-based application and I was trying to see what it takes to get all the module dependencies installed on a reasonably new Debian Stable machine as a non-root user. So I setup CPAN with "install_base" as described at http://catalyst.perl.org/calendar/2005/10 and then running the CPAN shell with "install Catalyst". When I finally got around to the make install part it failed to install catalyst.pl it tried to install to /usr/bin instead of $HOME/local/bin. Everything else when to $HOME/local, just not bin. A few people commented that I should try with a current version of CPAN.pm. So, I started over today by first updating CPAN, but still had to switch between using PREFIX and install_base depending on the module. Spent a good two to three hours editing the MyConfig.pl and re-running CPAN.pm. Made me appreciate those .debs. ;) Finally got everything installed I needed, and along with the dependencies: $ du -hs local 17M local $ find local -type f | wc -l 902 Besides Catalyst core, I'll bet there's really only about 50 to 100 files that I really need for my application to run. At least CPAN didn't try and upgrade Perl today. ;) -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
