Re: CPAN shell problem on MacOS X
From: Peter Hickman (peter_at_semantico.com)
Date: 12/09/03
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 10:17:15 +0000
Peter Hickman wrote:
> Art Werschulz wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> First of all, I think I understand why the cpan_home (etc.) is not a
>> subdirectory of root's home directory. Since the root user isn't
>> enabled by default, there would be no place to put same.
>>
>> However, I'm missing something with the manpage directories.
>> Following the directions in the CPAN manpage, I did
>> o conf makepl_arg="INSTALLMAN1DIR=/usr/share/man/man1\
>> INSTALLMAN3DIR=/usr/share/man/man3"
>> and I committed my change. Doing "o conf" verifies that this is
>> indeed set properly.
>>
>> However, CPAN still insists on installing manpages in /man, rather
>> than in /usr/share/man.
>>
>> What am I missing here? Many thanks.
>>
>
> I will try and see what is happening this weekend.
>
Well I put the makepl_arg stuff in the the config file and that didn't work. I
even tried adding the INSTALLMAN1DIR=/usr/share/man/man1
INSTALLMAN3DIR=/usr/share/man/man3 stuff to a command line install
perl Makefile.PL INSTA....etc
Didn't work either, still writes to /man
Any other ideas
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