At 5:58 AM -0800 1/19/09, dirk van der Giesen wrote: >If you run perl Makefile.pl it actually installes the module (.pm) file. >This usually is in the usr/bin/ directory or somewhere similar and on a host >it means you must have permissions to do so. >The most easy way is to ask your host to install the module for you, but there >is also something else you can try yourself >(from http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl/pod/perlmodinstall.pod): > >-- but you can install modules into any directory you wish. >For instance, >where I say perl Makefile.PL, >you can substitute perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/my/perl_directory to install the >modules into /my/perl_directory. >Then you can use the modules from your Perl programs with use lib >"/my/perl_directory/lib/site_perl"; or sometimes just use >"/my/perl_directory";. >If you're on a system that requires superuser/root access to install modules >into the directories you see when you type perl -e "print qq(@INC)", >you'll want to install them into a local directory (such as your home >directory) and use this approach. >
So if I use MakeFile to install the modules locally on my McOSX machine, I should be able to ftp the result to the correct folder (ie cgi-bin or cgi or wherever) on my remotely hosted web site and be able to use it by calling "use foo::bar;" in my main perl file as long as they are located in the same folder. Or would I need to include "use lib '.';" to establish the path? BTW, the module I am trying to install is reCAPTCHA.pl which has two dependencies: LWP::UserAgent and HTML::Tiny. I am trying to implement a captcha using NMS Formmail and http://recaptcha.net/, but my question about MakeFile has been bugging me for sometime. -- Lewis Kirk www.dmzgraphics.com 803-787-3450 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
