On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 01:34:02AM -0500, Randy W. Sims wrote: > >I tried to install the latest ExtUtils::MakeMaker-6.21 (in Linux) to > >install to another PREFIX. An older version lies under /usr/lib. I do > >not have root provilegues. Unfortunately installing this does not work: > > I /think/ that because MakeMaker sets INSTALL_DIRS=perl in its > Makefile.PL that it can't be overriden by PREFIX.
No. For various complicated reasons, "make install PREFIX=..." won't work unless you supplied it to the Makefile.PL. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Monkey tennis
