RE: Loading extra modules.

[Timothy Kimball]

: > perl Makefile.PL
: 
:   make
: 
: > make test
: > make install {su'ed to root}

When you do "make test" and you haven't done "make",
"make" will be done automatically.

-- tdk

Re: Loading extra modules.

[Timothy Kimball]

: Apparently, even if I give PREFIX= as a command line param, you get the
: following errors: 

: Skipping /home/tir/COMP/perl/modules/lib/site_perl/5.005/Date/Manip.pod (unchanged)

This means that Perl didn't bother to install Manip.pod because there
was one already there that was exactly the same as the one to be
installed.  (Presumably, you did the install twice?)

: /home/tir/COMP/perl/modules//lib/5.00503/i386-linux/perllocal.pod: No such file or 
:directory
: make: [doc_site_install] Error 1 (ignored)

Not a big deal. perllocal.pod is where perl records module
installations.  It's for your information, really (you can read it
with "perldoc perllocal"); perl doesn't use it for anything. This
can be ignored. If you want to skip this message in the future, do
"make pure_install" instead of "make install".

So only one of these messages was an error, and it wasn't really
important. The rest of the messages were just informational.

-- tdk

Re: Loading extra modules.

[Tirthankar C.P]

> 
> Be careful -- you can't just move modules into a directory and expect them
> to work, since some depend on loading native code shared libraries.

Brett was right. I tried installing it, but wasn't successful. I then got
the Sys Admin folks to install it, and it went just fine!! 

Apparently, even if I give PREFIX= as a command line param, you get the
following errors: 



Manifying blib/man3/Date::Manip.3 Skipping
/home/tir/COMP/perl/modules/lib/site_perl/5.005/Date/Manip.pm (unchanged)
Skipping /home/tir/COMP/perl/modules/lib/site_perl/5.005/Date/Manip.pod
(unchanged) Installing
/home/tir/COMP/perl/modules/lib/site_perl/5.005/Date/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Date/Manip.pm

Installing
/home/tir/COMP/perl/modules/lib/site_perl/5.005/Date/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Date/Manip.pod
Installing


/home/tir/COMP/perl/modules/lib/site_perl/5.005/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/Date/Manip/.packlist

Skipping /home/tir/COMP/perl/modules/lib/perl5/man/man3/Date::Manip.3
(unchanged) Installing
/home/tir/COMP/perl/modules/lib/perl5/man/man3/lib/perl5/man/man3/Date::Manip.3
Writing
/home/tir/COMP/perl/modules//lib/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/Date/Manip/.packlist
/bin/sh:
/home/tir/COMP/perl/modules//lib/5.00503/i386-linux/perllocal.pod: No such
file or directory make: [doc_site_install] Error 1 (ignored)
Appending installation info to
/home/tir/COMP/perl/modules//lib/5.00503/i386-linux/perllocal.pod   


I don't know what to make of this!!
Thanks anyway, 
-tir

RE: Loading extra modules.

[David A. Desrosiers]

> perl Makefile.PL

  make

> make test
> make install {su'ed to root}

Re: Loading extra modules.

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Tirthankar C.P wrote:

> Folks, how do I load extra modules? I got Date::Manip today, and I know I
> should be putting it in the search-path of perl (@INC ?), but how do I do
> it? Can I get a small code snippet?
>
> I do not have su privileges on the machine I work, and would like the
> search-path to have my modules dir, $HOME/perlmodules in it.

Be careful -- you can't just move modules into a directory and expect them
to work, since some depend on loading native code shared libraries.

If you have a module you want to use, you can do something like:

use lib '/path/to/modules'; #MyModule.pm is in this directory

use MyModule;

-- Brett
   http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/

Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility goes before honour.
-- Psalms 18:12

Re: Loading extra modules.

[Timothy Kimball]

: Folks, how do I load extra modules? I got Date::Manip today, and I know I
: should be putting it in the search-path of perl (@INC ?), but how do I do
: it? Can I get a small code snippet? 
: 
: I do not have su privileges on the machine I work, and would like the
: search-path to have my modules dir, $HOME/perlmodules in it. 

Try this (as you):

perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$HOME/perlmodules
make
make test
make install

Then in your script:

use lib '$HOME/perlmodules'; # replace $HOME with the location of your directory

-- tdk

RE: Loading extra modules.

[blowther]

If you got it in a tar'ed package, it will come with a Makefile.PL script.
The general procedure is:

perl Makefile.PL
make test
make install {su'ed to root}


If you didn't get the tar'ed package, and just have .pm, then I would
recommend getting the tar'ed package instead.  This would vary somewhat if
you're on a Windows NT box.

-Original Message-
From: Tirthankar C.P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 11:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Loading extra modules.




Folks, how do I load extra modules? I got Date::Manip today, and I know I
should be putting it in the search-path of perl (@INC ?), but how do I do
it? Can I get a small code snippet? 

I do not have su privileges on the machine I work, and would like the
search-path to have my modules dir, $HOME/perlmodules in it. 

TIA, 
-tir

Loading extra modules.

[Tirthankar C.P]

Folks, how do I load extra modules? I got Date::Manip today, and I know I
should be putting it in the search-path of perl (@INC ?), but how do I do
it? Can I get a small code snippet? 

I do not have su privileges on the machine I work, and would like the
search-path to have my modules dir, $HOME/perlmodules in it. 

TIA, 
-tir