On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:15:22PM -0400, Steve Grazzini wrote: > The answer for "How do I keep my own module/library directory?" > seems to be out-of-date: > > When you build modules, use the PREFIX option when generating > Makefiles: > > perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/u/mydir/perl > > then either set the PERL5LIB environment variable before you > run scripts that use the modules/libraries (see perlrun) or say > > use lib '/u/mydir/perl'; > > This puts my .pm files in > > /u/mydir/perl/lib/perl5/site_perl/$VERSION > > So I've changed the answer to suggest "LIB=" instead. > > (Better suggestions welcome.)
Not LIB. Or, at least, not *just* lib because that only handles part of the problem. Consider a module which ships executables, YAML.pm, for example. You'd need both LIB and PREFIX to get the effect you want. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ WOOHOO! I'm going to Disneyland! http://www.goats.com/archive/980805.html
