Strange installation dirs problem

[Ken Williams]

Hi,

A funny thing just happened when installing a local module with the latest MakeMaker from CVS. I installed it manually (no CPAN.pm), then tried to use it, and it wasn't found in @INC.

It turns out that the module was installed to /sw/lib/perl5/site_perl/, but that's not in my @INC, nor is it in my Config.pm. So it seems that MakeMaker (or ExtUtils::Install?) has invented this path rather than using what it's supposed to be using.

In this situation, /sw/lib/perl5 is in my @INC, so perhaps MakeMaker is blindly assuming that a site_perl directory there is the place to put stuff? I'm not sure whether it existed before this installation or not.

-Ken