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T Jake Luciani commented on THRIFT-528: --------------------------------------- I think the workaround is to run Makefile.PL directly from the perl lib. I'll look into replicating the JAVA_PREFIX setting for perl. > perl lib installation prefix should be configurable > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: THRIFT-528 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-528 > Project: Thrift > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Library (Perl) > Environment: linux (debian testing) > latest thrift develoment version (last commit from Wed Jun 24 2009) > Reporter: Matthieu Imbert > Priority: Minor > > perl library installation path should be configurable. > currently, when configuring with this command: > {noformat} > $ PY_PREFIX=/home/lyon/mimbert/local JAVA_PREFIX=/home/lyon/mimbert/local/lib > ./configure --prefix=/home/lyon/mimbert/local > {noformat} > then when doing make install (without root privileges), i get the following > error: > {noformat} > ERROR: Can't create '/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0' > mkdir /usr/local/share/perl: Permission denied at > /usr/share/perl/5.10/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 479 > {noformat} > i think perl lib installation path should either be based on the --prefix > given on command line, or on a new PERL_PREFIX environment variable similar > to the already existing PY_PREFIX and JAVA_PREFIX. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.