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unsetting the PREFIX setting

by punkish (Priest)
on Nov 08, 2012 at 19:51 UTC ( [id://1002968]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

punkish has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I was trying to install my own Perl on my shared web host, so I set `PREFIX= ~/usr` when building Perl. However, that process didn't really work very well, so I decided to install Perl using `perlbrew`. I now have Perl 5.16.2 installed, but for some reason the $PREFIX value is still remembered and causes problems. For example, `cpanminus` complains with

Only one of PREFIX or INSTALL_BASE can be given.  Not both.
  MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.5018.tar.gz
  /home/punkish/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.2/bin/perl Makefile.PL 
+PREFIX=~/home/punkish/perl -- NOT OK

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How do I unset the PREFIX value forever?

I have tried reconfiguring CPAN itself, but I don't know how to set all instances of PREFIX use to essentially whatever the default may be so cpanminus doesn't croak.



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Re: unsetting the PREFIX setting
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 09, 2012 at 04:52 UTC

    When you set it like that, it doesn't persist -- your .profile or .bashrc or a global one (from your admin) is probably setting prefix

    Also, maybe it is set through sitecustomize, run 'perl -V' to find out

    help set
help export
man set
man export

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