At 1:43 PM -0500 11/6/02, Emmanuel. M. Decarie wrote:
After perusing the CPAN doc, it doesn't seems possible from the command line to ask CPAN to load a specific Config.pm à la httpd -f. Maybe an alternative is to use the programmer's interface. Am I missing something here?
I don't know if the CPAN interface can do it. But if you only use CPAN to download the package, and then cd the the build area you can set the environment variables such that when you run "perl Makefile.PL" it will install in an alternate location. I do this on a shared-hosting machine I use where I don't have access to the system wide perl libraries. Something on the order of
perl Makefile.pl LIB=/usr/home/nazgul/perl PREFIX=/usr/home/nazgul/perl Which is in the config file as 'makepl_arg' => q[LIB=/usr/home/nazgul/perl PREFIX=/usr/home/nazgul/perl], Or you could just temporarily swap config files. -- Kee Hinckley - Somewhere.Com, LLC http://consulting.somewhere.com/ I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.
