That was it. In addition to the LIB variable, I needed to set PREFIX. Thanks
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:boston-pm-admin@;mail.pm.org]On Behalf Of Elaine -HFB- Ashton Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 9:43 AM To: Joel Gwynn Cc: Boston-Pm Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] cpan modules Joel Gwynn [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>I'm trying to install Mail::SpamAssasin at pair.com. *> *>At pair, they have instructions for using the cpan module: *>http://www.pair.com/pair/current/insider/0102/cpan.html *> *>It basically involves setting a LIB variable, like so: *> o conf makepl_arg LIB=DIRECTORY_NAME *> *>It almost works, but when the module needs to install man pages, it errors Is the system Solaris 8 and using the system perl? Sol8 had a little feature when using the system perl that users, even when doing the right thing, could not install their own modules. If that isn't the case then be sure to also set your PREFIX variable. http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_install_private might be helpful too. e. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
