Re: Installing binary-dependant module on shared hosting (Time::Piece)

[dana]

You can specify the installation directory by following the directions at the bottom of the following:
http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/2.22/html/nonroot.html

Then specify which lib to use at the top of your perl script:
use lib qw( /this/is/the/path/to/my/installed/module/ )

[isync]

Does this comment imply I should stop manualy extracting module tars into my script dirs and instead modify the cpan workings to use a dir in my directory domain (and finally solve the permission problem)?

[wjw]

The CPAN config allows you to establish your own lib in your home file space (or anyplace you can write to). After which you can simply "use lib("path_to_your_cpan_libs") at the top of your perl code. So yes, that is the route that I go when I can't install to the system lib location for Perl. Another method with detail is described here ->

The easiest way to get what you want is to

$>perl -MCPAN -e sh

then

cpan> o conf init

Details here->

hope that helps....

[dana]

Exactly.

You can use CPAN, writing to a directory of your choice to which you have access, then reference that directory in a 'use lib' statement.

[isync]

OK then, I made all the modifications to cpan and could install various modules to my private /lib path.

But then: problems with Time::Piece again... The snippet from cpan:

  CPAN.pm: Going to build M/MS/MSERGEANT/Time-Piece-1.11.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Time::Piece
cp Seconds.pm blib/lib/Time/Seconds.pm
cp Piece.pm blib/lib/Time/Piece.pm
/usr/local/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 -I/usr/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr
+/share/perl/5.6.1/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Ext
+Utils/typemap Piece.xs > Piece.xsc && mv Piece.xsc Piece.c
cc -c  -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE
+_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2   -DVERSION=\"1.11\" -DXS_VERSION=
+\"1.11\" -fPIC -I/usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/CORE  Piece.c
Running Mkbootstrap for Time::Piece ()
chmod 644 Piece.bs
rm -f blib/arch/auto/Time/Piece/Piece.so
LD_RUN_PATH="" cc  -shared -L/usr/local/lib Piece.o  -o blib/arch/auto
+/Time/Piece/Piece.so
chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/Time/Piece/Piece.so
cp Piece.bs blib/arch/auto/Time/Piece/Piece.bs
chmod 644 blib/arch/auto/Time/Piece/Piece.bs
Manifying blib/man3/Time::Seconds.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Time::Piece.3pm
  /usr/bin/make  -- OK
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib -I/usr/li
+b/perl/5.6.1 -I/usr/share/perl/5.6.1 -e 'use Test::Harness qw(&runtes
+ts $verbose); $verbose=0; runtests @ARGV;' t/*.t
t/01base............ok
t/02core............ok
t/03compare.........ok
t/04mjd.............ok
t/05overload........ok
t/06subclass........FAILED tests 1-10
        Failed 10/10 tests, 0.00% okay
Failed Test    Status Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+----------
t/06subclass.t                10   10 100.00%  1-10
Failed 1/6 test scripts, 83.33% okay. 10/128 subtests failed, 92.19% o
+kay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 29
  /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force


I used this command to alter my cpan conf:

o conf makepl_arg "LIB=/myhome/myperl/lib \
INSTALLMAN1DIR=/myhome/myperl/man/man1 \
INSTALLMAN3DIR=/myhome/myperl/man/man3"


Did I miss to define the path for binaries, as it seems from what cpan spit out??