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• local::lib (Score:1)

  by hdp (1658)

  if you don't mind changing your paths a bit, use local::lib '/opt/perl' and forget about it.
  
  I'd say you're missing the arch-specific dirs (you probably are), but that can't be all, because that wouldn't explain Moose and Test::More.
  • Re:local::lib (Score:1)

    by wirebird (8007) <karen.cravensNO@SPAMgmail.com> on 2008.05.29 12:57 (#63068) Homepage Journal

    I don't mind changing my paths inside regular Perl stuff... works good lasts long time already there.
    
    It's just when I'm sudo'd to run the cpan shell. I can't change root's paths (at least, not permanently) without defeating the purpose of having the libs separated. And even so, I'm doing a straight-up sudo, and PERL5LIB carries over.
    
    So I'm not at all sure that's the actual problem... it seems like whatever's doing the installation (Module::Install, I think) is failing to locate it internally. Not a failed require, but a "can't find this file in the filesystem" sort of search. Which makes no sense: it knows where to *put* the stuff, why does it not try looking there?
    
    I suppose the cpan shell doesn't use any non-core modules, so I can't really tell if it would successfully find them for actual use. Almost makes me want to move something essential to the /opt directory, except then the mail server or something would probably explode.
    

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    • Re: (Score:1)

      by phillup (4419)

      And even so, I'm doing a straight-up sudo, and PERL5LIB carries over.

      Are you sure? I believe that by default sudo will clear PERL5LIB because of a security issue [debian.org].
      
      So, you can either edit /etc/sudoers to keep the value (not recommended) or do something like this. [blogspot.com]
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by wirebird (8007)

        I Did Not Know That.
        
        Neither did my sysadmin/husband (though when I mentioned it, he went off into talking-to-the-ceiling land: "Huh! Yeah, that would... oh, then you could... yeah, that could be a problem... but you could... no... ")
        
        And hey, passing it on the command line works. Thanks!
        
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by hdp (1658)

      I don't mind changing my paths inside regular Perl stuff... works good lasts long time already there.

      I didn't mean inside Perl, I meant in your shell, like the local::lib examples give:
      eval `perl -Mlocal::lib=/opt/perl`
      (in .bashrc or similar)

      This will cover all the bases -- Module::Install, Module::Build, your arch-specific dirs, etc.
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by wirebird (8007)

        The problem is (was) that Module::Install and everybody all worked fine... *if* I installed manually. There didn't seem to be anything wrong with "my" configuration, I just couldn't figure out why the cpan shell, specifically, wasn't honoring it. So it didn't seem like local::lib would help.
        
        The key, it turns out, was that by the time I reached "make install," the only bit done with sudo, my personal PERL5LIB had already set all the appropriate paths, so the fact that it wasn't being passed wasn't a concern