[Module::Build] http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Module-Build

[<and...@fr...>]

Patrick,

the following posting on http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Module-Build
(which seems to be written by you; apologies if I'm mistaken on this)
caught my attention:

|Module-Build (0.28) *
|
|    All I want to do is to configure the CPAN shell to install all
|    modules under my home directory (not as root), even though the
|    Perl I am using is bundled with my system (installed as root).
|
|    I can figure out how to set PERL5LIB to access the modules. I always have.
|
|    I used to simply set PREFIX. But now that half of the &^##@%!
|    modules on CPAN use MakeMaker and half use Module::Build, I have
|    no idea what to set. I tried setting both PREFIX and install_base
|    in the CPAN shell defaults, but then Module::Build modules refuse
|    to compile at all (they bomb when given PREFIX).
|
|    Nice job breaking something that has worked for years. This sucks
|    even by open source standards... I don't care about stupid
|    religious wars; I just want some setting -- any setting -- to
|    convince all of the modules on CPAN to install themselves under
|    ${HOME}. Is there one? There used to be.
|
|Patrick J. LoPresti - 2006-05-01 17:14:41

Would you mind, giving a complete example that bombs, so that the
Module::Build developers can fix the problem?

Thank you very much,
-- 
andreas