On Nov 1, 2007 2:06 PM, Mesdaq, Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Been working on setting up Catalyst on a shared host and I have to say > its been pretty painful. Been trying to use the default install on the host > and add the modules I need but came across the suggestion to install a new > version of perl and that helped a lot. But the host I am using (aplus.net) > has pretty strict setup as opposed to dreamhost having a more open setup so > its making it even harder. But it seems like everything else works good > except Module::Build. It seems like you need to have root to install that > module. I keep getting errors that are related to chdir and it not figuring > out what directory its built in and permissions issues. > > So my question is what are my options? Changing hosts is not an option. Is > there a way I can cleanly and reliably build it on a system that I do have > root access like a freebsd vmware image and then move it over? Would par be > a good option for something like that? I wonder if its possible to just > build a portable custom install of perl with all catalyst modules and > everything on a machine with root access and just tar and move the whole > install. I mean I did build the initial perl install on the vm image because > I was getting errors with building on the shared host but I didn't want to > build all the modules there because I thought it might not be a reliable way > of setting up the environment. >
Use local::lib ( http://search.cpan.org/~apeiron/local-lib-1.001000/lib/local/lib.pm) (I'd actually be happy to do an advent article on installing catalyst under local::lib if there was any interest) Thanks, John
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