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Id: 2230
Status: resolved
Worked: 10 min
Priority: 0/
Queue: Module-Build

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Owner: kwilliams [...] cpan.org
Requestors: ivorw-cpan [...] xemaps.com
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 0.16
Fixed in: (no value)



Subject: Cannot install to my lib directory
It seems that the command option sitelib=... as documented in README is ignored. This is annoying, as I do not have root on the box I am installing to. Config information is at the bottom. Shell dialogue follows: /home/williami/bld/Module-Build-0.16: perl Build.PL sitelib=~/lib Checking whether your kit is complete... Looks good Creating new 'Build' script for 'Module-Build' version '0.16' /home/williami/bld/Module-Build-0.16: ./Build WARNING: './Build' script was created with perl, but we are now using /usr/local/bin/perl lib/Module/Build.pm -> blib/lib/Module/Build.pm lib/Module/Build/Base.pm -> blib/lib/Module/Build/Base.pm lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm -> blib/lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm lib/Module/Build/Platform/Amiga.pm -> blib/lib/Module/Build/Platform/Amiga.pm lib/Module/Build/Platform/darwin.pm -> blib/lib/Module/Build/Platform/darwin.pm lib/Module/Build/Platform/Default.pm -> blib/lib/Module/Build/Platform/Default.pm lib/Module/Build/Platform/EBCDIC.pm -> blib/lib/Module/Build/Platform/EBCDIC.pm lib/Module/Build/Platform/MacOS.pm -> blib/lib/Module/Build/Platform/MacOS.pm lib/Module/Build/Platform/MPEiX.pm -> blib/lib/Module/Build/Platform/MPEiX.pm lib/Module/Build/Platform/RiscOS.pm -> blib/lib/Module/Build/Platform/RiscOS.pm lib/Module/Build/Platform/Unix.pm -> blib/lib/Module/Build/Platform/Unix.pm lib/Module/Build/Platform/VMS.pm -> blib/lib/Module/Build/Platform/VMS.pm lib/Module/Build/Platform/VOS.pm -> blib/lib/Module/Build/Platform/VOS.pm lib/Module/Build/Platform/Windows.pm -> blib/lib/Module/Build/Platform/Windows.pm /home/williami/bld/Module-Build-0.16: ./Build test WARNING: './Build' script was created with perl, but we are now using /usr/local/bin/perl t/basic.........ok t/runthrough....ok t/xs............skipped all skipped: no compiler found All tests successful, 1 test skipped. Files=3, Tests=23, 11 wallclock secs ( 5.55 cusr + 2.14 csys = 7.69 CPU) /home/williami/bld/Module-Build-0.16: ./Build install WARNING: './Build' script was created with perl, but we are now using /usr/local/bin/perl Useless use of a variable in void context at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 267. Warning: You do not have permissions to install into /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 85. mkdir /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Module: Permission denied at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 139 /home/williami/bld/Module-Build-0.16: ./Build install sitelib=~/lib WARNING: './Build' script was created with perl, but we are now using /usr/local/bin/perl Useless use of a variable in void context at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 267. Warning: You do not have permissions to install into /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 85. mkdir /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Module: Permission denied at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 139 /home/williami/bld/Module-Build-0.16: perl -v This is perl, v5.6.1 built for sun4-solaris Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit. Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'. If you have access to the Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page. /home/williami/bld/Module-Build-0.16: perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris uname='sunos tensor.vnet.net 5.6 generic_105181-06 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-1 ' config_args='-Dcc=gcc -de' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O', cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.3 20010315 (release)', gccosandvers='solaris2.6' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib ' libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lsocket -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under solaris Compiled at May 10 2001 06:56:03 %ENV: PERL5LIB="/home/williami/lib" @INC: /home/williami/lib/5.6.1/sun4-solaris /home/williami/lib/5.6.1 /home/williami/lib/sun4-solaris /home/williami/lib /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/sun4-solaris /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl . /home/williami/bld/Module-Build-0.16:
Hi Ivor, You're right, the documentation is hopelessly wrong about this. The current way to get installation to happen in another directory is like this: perl Build.PL config='sitelib=/home/foo/lib sitearch=/home/foo/lib/i386-linux' It's pretty ugly, but it works. Note that '~' and other shell escapes are NOT honored here unless your shell fills them in. If you do perl Build.PL config='sitelib=~/lib sitearch=~/lib/i386-linux' under tcsh, for example, it will quite happily create a directory called '~' in the current directory. Fixing the installation directories is probably the biggest issue for the 1.17 release. It's so wacky now that the fixes probably won't be backward-compatible. -Ken