On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Ben Tilly wrote:
> I've also been told that Module::Build doesn't do a good job for
> people who want to install a module into a personal directory -
> it tries to install it into the system directory and then fails if you
> don't have permissions. :-(
That's not been my experience. install_base seems to tdo the right thing
as far as I can tell. From the man page:
install_base
You can also set the whole bunch of installation paths by supplying
the install_base parameter to point to a directory on your system. For
instance, if you set install_base to "/home/ken" on a Linux system, you'll
install as follows:
lib => /home/ken/lib
arch => /home/ken/lib/i386-linux
script => /home/ken/scripts
bin => /home/ken/bin
bindoc => /home/ken/man/man1
libdoc => /home/ken/man/man3
Note that this is different from how MakeMaker's PREFIX parameter
works. PREFIX tries to create a mini-replica of a site-style installation
under the directory you specify, which is not always possible (and the
results are not always pretty in this case). install_base just gives you a
default layout under the directory you specify, which may have little to
do with the installdirs=site layout.
The exact layout under the directory you specify may vary by system -
we try to do the "sensible" thing on each platform.
So ./Build --install_base=/home/simonw should do what you want. Do you
have other experience ?
Simon.
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