Re: [OT] Perl question

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jun 29, 2006, at 12:15 AM, David wrote:

> Sorry for this OT question, but I know the folks here are quite  
> capable
> of answering this - as well or more so on a specific Perl list.
>
> Anyway, I'm contemplating playing around with building some Perl  
> modules
> - with MakeMaker.  It would be nice to install them rather than
> constantly invoking "use lib" once I get them "halfway decent".  Of
> course, no doubt, I would be doing a lot of "fixing" and
> re-installing.  Is there any danger of mucking up my system by doing
> so?  If you replace a module, is it advisable/necessary to uninstall
> the old version first?  Does "make uninstall" remove everything
> cleanly?  I am aware of .packlist and wonder if it will be cleaned up
> correctly.

You can avoid the whole issue by using a sandbox, or nonstandard  
library location.

   perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/some/place
   export PERL5LIB=/some/place/lib/perl5/site_perl

You can install to this sandbox as much as you like, and even wipe it  
away to start over.  When you're ready to install system-wide, just  
do perl Makefile.PL, that is, without the PREFIX setting.

This is the approach that we recommend for using unstable versions of  
the Gtk2-Perl modules.

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