Installing an app without Admin rights

[George Szynal]

I want to ship a Perl app (a rapid-prototyping development tool, and demo of its usefullness) for MacOSX, and because it is for Cocoa applications (Objective C, Distributed Objects) I don't expect end-users to need Admin rights to the Library tree during final-app installation.    Note: The demo calls a 'Perl To Objective C Bridge' which ships with recent versions of MacOSX.   I have a work-around:  Developers install their resulting app locally with Admin rights and then bundle files for end-users so the end-user won't need Admin rights.    Request For Information: What would be great is to make a change to Makefile.PL or use a command-line arg such that files don't get copied to '/Library/Perl/Darwin' by 'make install' .    Here is the workaround: LOGGED IN WITH ADMIN RIGHTS: ## From first principals as generated by h2xs -A -n Foo (here, MathSystem) ## ##   MathSystem.xs ##   MathSystem.pm ##   Makefile.PL ##   Changes ##   MANIFEST ##   test.pl ## ##   plus value added files: ##     mathServer.pm ##     mathClient.pm   make clean perl MakeFile.PL make install ## Now, copy what we've made at the EXPECTED place (ie. from the Admin-restricted tree) ## to the current working tree ##   mkdir auto mkdir auto/MathSystem   cp -rf  /Library/Perl/darwin/auto/MathSystem/* ../auto/MathSystem/.   ## and fix ownership: chown -R george *   ## and uninstall...and remove the remainder by hand... rm      /Library/Perl/darwin/mathServer.pm rm      /Library/Perl/darwin/mathClient.pm rm      /Library/Perl/darwin/MathSystem.pm rm -rf  /Library/Perl/darwin/auto/MathSystem   NOW LOGGED IN WITHOUT ADMIN RIGHTS: The app runs OK. So I tar the files and use them on another MacOSX system without ever logging in as Admin, the app runs OK.  **But can I avoid the need to be logged in as Admin in this process?  An edit to Makefile.PL perhaps?  (I tried the INSTALLDIR= arg, but files still get copied to '/Library/Perl/Darwin', and thus requires Admin rights to run the install.