Re: [Module-build-general] bug in Module-Build-0.18

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 07:14  PM, jk wrote:

> I wanted to install Module::Build on my computer.  I keep my perl 
> modules in /home/me/data/perl58, so I did this:
>
> perl Build.PL sitelib=/home/me/data/perl58/
> ./Build
> ./Build test
> ./Build install
>
> ...but it still trys to install into /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/ 
> (where it has no permissions) rather than /home/me/data/perl58/ as I 
> asked.
>
> Using a standard RedHat 9 Linux box with perl 5.8.
>
> Please let me know if I'm doing something wrong.  Thanks for the help.

Hi jk,

The local-directory support for Module::Build is still woefully 
inadequate.  It's a goal for version 0.19.  One way (the only way?) to 
install locally with 0.18 is this:

  perl Build.PL config=sitelib=/home/me/data/perl58/
  ./Build
  ./Build test
  ./Build fakeinstall     (to check what it'll do in 'install')
  ./Build install

I swear we'll try to make this better soon.

  -Ken