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 provided a PREFIX for the
makepl_arg, to install everything in my local path. Almost everything
works fine.
The modules (e.g. foo.pm) and the man1 pages are correctly installed
relative to the PREFIX path. However, man3 pages seem to ignore PREFIX.
In fact, even if I try using INSTALLMAN3DIR, and whether or not I
specific 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.
Here's the line from my ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm:
'makepl_arg' => q[PREFIX=~/perl],
perl is 5.8.8 and ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.62 is installed on my system.
And the directory ~/perl/man/man3/ exists.
Am I doing something wrong? Should I send this question somewhere else?
Thanks!
Phil
