A little more detail .. the problem with XML::LibXML not detecting the library was the same problem with xsubpp although it took a while to figure that out. The Makefile.PL generated a Conftest.PL type test to see if the library was available. Makefile.PL generated a Makefile with the hard-coded path in it, which is why I said it was a MakeMaker problem. changing to this
XSUBPPDIR = /home/simon/local/share/perl/5.6.1/ExtUtils
made the problem go away.
Simon
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From: Simon Woodside Date: Sun Apr 6, 2003 11:36:03 PM America/Montreal To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FYI: local install of XML::LibXML
FYI
I installed XML::LibXML locally (without root) into a situation where my libxml2 was also installed locally. I was having trouble with it not detecting the installed library that I eventually resolved by commenting out the tests in Makefile.PL
I had PERL5LIB=/home/simon/local/lib/perl/5.6.1:/home/simon/local/share/ perl/5.6.1
and I ran perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/simon/local
Then running make gave the following error:
make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/share/perl/5.6.1/ExtUtils/xsubpp', needed by `LibXML.c'. Stop.
This is a problem (I guess) with MakeMaker not applying the proper prefix to find xsubpp (which is installed in /home/simon/local/share/perl/5.6.1/ExtUtils/) I hacked the Makefile to manually change the path.
simon
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