[thelist] perl - installing modules with restricted permissions
Dean Mah
dmah at shaw.ca
Wed Sep 12 17:54:30 CDT 2001
In UNIX, when you create the Makefile you can pass it the prefix
argument as the root directory of the install. For example,
perl Makefile.PL prefix=/tmp
make
make test
make install
The 'make install' should start installing in /tmp.
Dean
Sam-I-Am writes:
> I want to use Image::Size, but it is not available on my server.
> I can't seem to use CPAN to install the module - not sufficient
> permissions to write to the directories it wants to write to, but there
> should be no reason why I can't install it under my home directory, and
> then push this into @INC right?
> Can someone tell me how to do this? I can't see where I would specify
> what directory to take as root, or how I would change the Makefile.pl,
> or anything else I could do short of rebuilding the tree I have locally
> and ftp-ing it. (and it uses autoloader so there's files all over the
> place, it's not just a matter of the Size.pm file)
>
> My other option is obviously to request Image::Size from my admin, which
> if I end up relying on it I may do, but meantime....
>
> anyhow, I may be missing a profoundly obvious solution, or if you have
> an idea what I'm talking about, please let me know. I'm on Win32 here
> (test, dev), and linux there - the production web server.
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