Beau E. Cox wrote:
Just haven't read up on CPAN enough ;-) (neither had I until recently)...I almost *always* use this old-style config/make/install sequence - rather than the CPAN shell - because I feel like I have more control of the process and I can read the README, INSTALL, etc. files before starting.
Within the shell do:
> o conf
This will dump you a list of configuration parameters. Then to set a parameter do:
> o conf <param>=<value>
In particular for install options you will probably want to be using, 'make','make_arg',make_install_arg','makepl_arg' which correspond nicely to the the command line options when doing the manual install.
For viewing the README, etc. you can issue:
> get <module>
To download and unpack the module, then issue:
> look <module>
Which will dump you to a sub shell inside the build directory where you can look at the README, hack the makefile, etc. then just exit the sub shell and you are back into CPAN where you started... Fun for the whole family...
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