Re: [OT] Perl question

[David <dbree duo-county com>]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:21:26AM -0400, muppet wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2006, at 12:15 AM, David wrote:
>
> > Sorry for this OT question,

> > I'm contemplating playing around with building some Perl  modules

> > 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?

> 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.

What a _great_ solution!  The most sensible thing in the world.

Many thanks for the help.