Re: Can't Install Perl as Non-Root

On Jan 24, 10:39 pm, Ben Morrow <b...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Quoth dawmail333 <Dawmail...@xxxxxxxxx>:

On Jan 24, 2:45 pm, dawmail333 <Dawmail...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 24, 2:22 pm, Ben Morrow <b...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

--- lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm       Thu Jan 24 04:18:08 2008
+++ lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm.cwd   Thu Jan 24 04:19:40 2008
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@
 # File::Spec subclasses use this.
 sub _cwd {
     require Cwd;
-    Cwd::getcwd();
+    Cwd::cwd();
 }

That patch didn't work, so I manually changed the line in question.

It applied when it left here (I checked), so your newsreader made a mess
of it somehow.

<snip>

Sorry, I fixed this problem as well.  I have hit another one:

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/.bazooka/dawliam/perl-5.10.0/ext/
Digest/SHA'

        Making Encode (dynamic)
opendir(../../lib/../../../..): Permission denied at ../../lib/
ExtUtils/MakeMake
r.pm line 182

OK, this is getting silly... one more try, then I'm giving up :).

Ben

--- lib/Cwd.pm  Tue Dec 18 10:47:07 2007
+++ lib/Cwd.pm.cwd      Thu Jan 24 12:33:29 2008
@@ -501,6 +501,11 @@
 sub _perl_abs_path
 {
     my $start = @_ ? shift : '.';
+
+    # this just returns a path down from /, without attempting to
+    # resolve .. or symlinks. It *may* be sufficient to build perl.
+    return $start =~ m!^/! ? $start : cwd() . '/' . $start;
+
     my($dotdots, $cwd, @pst, @cst, $dir, @tst);

     unless (@cst = stat( $start ))

It worked! I installed perl! Now, the trick is, what configuration
do I need to install modules? There is another version of perl which
I can't install modules to, so can you tell me what configuration I
need?
.