thanks for your input. it works now.
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, drieux wrote:
> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 13:29:46 -0700
> From: drieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: begin begin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: module installation cant find dependencies
>
>
> On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 11:27 , RaymondMoran wrote:
>
> > So now I've set the PERL5LIB and the PERLLIB variable. I include the -I
> > variable:
> >
> > perl -I"~/lib/perl5" Makefile.PL LIB=~/lib/perl5 PREFIX=~/lib/perl5
> > Warning: prerequisite MIME::Base64 failed to load: Can't locate
> > MIME/Base64.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> > /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.6.1/alpha-netbsd /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.6.1
> > /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/alpha-netbsd
> > /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at
> > (eval 4) line 3.
> >
> > my home directory's still not in there.
>
>
> Assuming that your PERL5LIB were set like:
>
> gax: 81:] setenv PERL5LIB ~/lib/perl5
> gax: 82:] perl *.PL
> Writing Makefile for URI
> gax: 83:]
>
> on a linux like machine - it appears that the double quotes
> are preventing shell expansion.... hence the process would be
>
> gax: 89:] !78
> perl -I ~/lib/perl5 Makefile.PL LIB=~/lib/perl5 PREFIX=~/lib/perl5
> Writing Makefile for URI
> gax: 90:]
>
> sorry about that...
>
> what you will find useful would be something like:
>
> ### #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> ### use strict;
> ### #
> ### #/home/drieux/bin/PerlInstall - you know to install stuff locally
> ### #
> ###
> ### use lib "$ENV{HOME}/lib/perl";
> ###
> ### $ENV{PERL5LIB} = ($ENV{PERL5LIB}) ? "$ENV{HOME}/lib/perl:$ENV{PERL5LIB}
> "
> ### : "$ENV{HOME}/lib/perl";
> ###
> ### my $prefix = $ENV{HOME};
> ### my $lib = "$prefix/lib/perl";
> ###
> ###
> ### my $man = "$prefix/man";
> ### my $cmdArgs = "PREFIX=$prefix LIB=$lib ";
> ### $cmdArgs .= " INSTALLMAN3DIR=$man/man3 INSTALLMAN1DIR=$man/man1";
> ###
> ### my $cmd = "perl Makefile.PL $cmdArgs";
> ###
> ### system("make clean");
> ###
> ### system($cmd);
> ### #system("make test");
> ### #system("make install");
> ###
>
> this way I have it stuffed in my home 'bin' directory - for
> places when I am working with 'local only' install into my
> home directory vice into the canonical CPAN space....
>
> As you will notice this process of not installing into
> where your perl will natively find it has problems.....
>
>
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