I'm probably just doing something really dumb -- but I cannot figure out what.
I am using the cpan tool to install modules on a FreeBSD system that I do not have root permission on. I have a PREFIX variable set to install everything in my local path. Everything works fine (I have been doing this for many modules, successfully) unless man3 pages need to be published. Although man1 man pages are correctly installed relative to the PREFIX path, man3 man pages seem to ignore PREFIX. In fact, even if I try using INSTALLMAN3DIR, and whether or not I specify INSTALLDIRS=perl, nothing seems to cause man3 man pages to be re-routed. Instead, they try to be installed in the root distribution and the install fails: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!**!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!**!!!!!!!!!!!! > ERROR: Can't create '/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/**man/man3' > Do not have write permissions on '/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/**man/man3' > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!**!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!** > !!!!!!!!!!!! > at /homes/pkasten/perl/lib/perl5/**site_perl/5.8.8/Module/Build/**Base.pm > line 3569 > In other words, with the PREFIX variable set (to ~/perl), man1 man pages are correctly placed in ~/perl/man/man1, but man3 man pages seem to want to go to /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/**man/man3. And, this does not change even if I also specify INSTALLMAN3DIR=~/perl/man/**man3, with or without INSTALLDIRS=perl. perl is 5.8.8 and ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.62 is installed on my system. Am I doing something wrong? More importantly, how do I resolve this? Thanks! Phil
