On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:26:24PM -0800, George Szynal wrote:
> Since then I have discovered that installing with admin rights is required
> for the app to run.
>
> EXPECTED RESULT:
> regardless of how we installed, if mathServer.pm and mathClient.pm
> use mathSystem;
> ...rather than...
> use lib mathSystem;
use lib adds directories for Perl to search for modules. It takes a list of
directories as an argument, not a Perl module.
Assuming the layout of your programs and modules is something like:
/path/to/your/product_dir/your_program
/path/to/your/product_dir/lib/mathSystem.pm
This information is available via "perldoc lib".
Your proper usage would likely be:
use lib '/path/to/your/product_dir/lib/';
use mathSystem;
Alternatively, you can do it relative to the location of the program itself.
First you have to find where the program is installed using FindBin and the
resulting $FindBin::Bin variable.
use FindBin;
# $FindBin::Bin contains /path/to/your/product_dir which is where
# your_program is located.
use lib "$FindBin::Bin/lib";
use mathSystem;
Perl will now find mathSystem.pm in /path/to/your/product_dir/lib/.
> ...the app should run OK after moving the auto directory under the
> product directory.
Unless you're using an AutoLoader or XS code there should be no auto/
directory. Likely you have a "use AutoLoader" in your module which it's not
using (probably generated from the original h2xs template) and is creating
an empty stub directory.
> 3. App did NOT work, even the Server failed to launch.
How did the app not work? Did it punch out early? Did it take a sick day?
Did it go on strike? ;)
A simple way to figure out if things are installed correctly is to write a
small program in /path/to/your/product_dir/ which attempts to use mathSystem
and checks what $mathSystem::VERSION you have and where it came from by
printing $INC{"mathSystem.pm"}. This smaller program will be easier to
debug and understand what's going on WRT module locations and loading than
the full system.
> RESULTING data point: Installing as ROOT provides a service that we need,
> which we don't fully understand.
Installing as root should not be consequential. Stop shuffling .pm files
around by hand and reinstall something like this:
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/path/to/your/product_directory
LIB=/path/to/your/product_directory/lib
make test
make install
Alternatively, if the PREFIX/LIB stuff just isn't working for some reason,
you can do a manual install by doing...
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
and then copying the entire contents of blib/ (the build directory from
which MakeMaker installs) to /path/to/your/product_directory/lib/
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