On 11/1/07, John Goulah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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<http://search.cpan.org/%7Eapeiron/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 >
Excellent, how does Day 12 sound? :) -- J. Shirley :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: Killing two stones with one bird... http://www.toeat.com
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