marco.mase...@softeco.it wrote:
Hi André ,

use local::lib:

http://search.cpan.org/~apeiron/local-lib-1.008001/

it nicely handles your issue.

By the way, I tried to use local::lib "out of the box", and could not install 
it.
I think it is because the Makefile relies on a GNU make, and the HPUX host I was trying this on, has another version of make. That version chokes on the last 2 lines of the Makefile generated by local::lib's Makefile.pl, and which look like this :

PERL  += -Ietc...
FULLPERL += -Ietc....

The error is something like :
missing separator on line 838
missing separator on line 839

(Apologies for not being more precise, but I do not have access to that system 
right now)

Not being a great specialist of make (or in fact of anything), I figured that the HPUX version of make does not like these "+=" operators, but I did not know how to correct these 2 lines. Of course not being root, I cannot easily install a GNU make on that system either.

Anyway, in fits and starts, by trying things derived from what I understood of the docs of local::lib about what local::lib does, I did in the end manage to get CPAN configured in such a way that it does install perl modules under my own chosen directory, while not root.

The gist of the matter is : if you do not have access to the target system as root *at any time*, it is quite tricky to get this done.

For example, on another system which I was using to "practice" this first, I could simply not run "perl -MCPAN ..", because there was a lockfile /root/.cpan/.lock, leftover I suppose from an aborted root session with CPAN, and when I tried to run CPAN with another user (to do a "o conf init"), it threw me out each time, because it was still trying to use the default CPAN parameters (from the /root/.cpan directory), and choking on this leftover .lock file, which could not be removed of course because it was owned by root. Fortunately, on that particular system I did have root access, so I could go and remove that .lock file. Had I been on the real target system, I would have been stuck right there.

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