On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:49 AM, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote: > I'm obviously doing something Dumb. > > I've just built perl 5.6.2: > $ sh Configure -de -Dprefix=/home/david/cpantesting/perl-5.6.2 > $ make > $ make test (one test failure cos the machine has too new a Berkeley DB) > $ make install > > But then when I try to install modules: > > $ perl-5.6.2/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell > > install CPAN > ... > Warning: You do not have permissions to install into /usr/lib/perl/5.8 at > /usr/share/perl/5.8/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 114.
You have to *manually* upgrade some combination of CPAN, ExtUtils;:Install and ExtUtils::MakeMaker. I usually upgrade all three. I forget which one has the bug, but it's a problem if there are other perls that come earlier in your path. -- David
