On 31 Oct 2012, at 16:45, Ram <ram0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On my Mac, where I do some RT tinkering as a standalone build, I have an >> rt-support directory in my home directory, and I put all the libraries RT >> needs in there, and I point my PERL5LIB and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH variables at >> it whenever I'm working on RT. The relevant bits of my CPAN/MyConfig.pm >> file: >> >> 'makepl_arg' => q[INSTALL_BASE=~/rt-support], >> 'mbuildpl_arg' => q[--install_base ~/rt-support], >> >> and then my PERL5LIB is: >> >> $HOME/rt-support/lib/perl5 >> > > Yep this is exactly what we've tried but some of the required modules > do not respect those parameters (INSTALL and MANPAGE). We started to > tweak the perl make files for those modules one by one but it's not a > great way to go.
As you see above, I don't set the individual locations like INSTALL and MANPAGE. Just the INSTALL_BASE. I have not found a single CPAN module that RT requires which did not install correctly in my ~/rt_support directory. Which ones did you have problems with? >> On my production RT server, which is running Ubuntu, I use the system perl, >> and install pre-packaged modules where I can, but if I can't I just let RT's >> 'make fixdeps' do what it likes, and install the necessary packages in the >> system's site perl directory. Since the server isn't used for anything >> other than RT, I'm not bothered about superseding what the OS itself >> installs. The major advantage of doing it that way is that it's then much >> easier to configure with the packaged versions of apache, mod_perl and so on. > > Our server runs CentOS 6 (downstream of RHEL 6) and it is no small > feat to get most of the perl modules as rpms, it is impossible to get > them all without building them ourselves. On Debian/Ubuntu systems there's a fabulous little package called dh-make-perl which whizzes off to CPAN, downloads the module sources, configures and builds it and results in a .deb package which you can install on the system. Before RT 4.0 came out, that's how I built all the perl modules for our RT server. It was a nice clean way to do it, if a bit of a faff. Does CentOS have a similar script for making RPM's out of CPAN modules? Regards, Tim -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. -------- We're hiring! http://bestpractical.com/jobs
