RE: Installing perl modules

Hi Andy,


Andy Cravens wrote:
Is there a way to have multiple users on a server using the perl at
/usr/local/bin/perl and yet have their own personal perl modules
that
the other users can't see?

...
During module install you can specify an alternate location to
install
the module using LIBS=/path/to/your/perlmods like this:

perl Makefile.PL LIBS=/home/jdoe/perlmods

but if I'm correct, I think these perl modules will be seen by
everybody on the server. Can someone clarify this?


I'm not sure if this is of any help since it was a while ago that I
tried this. But I have done this before and if I recall, I did
something like:

perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/perl

And then make;make test;make install. I don't recall using "LIBS".
And
then, I had to do: "use lib '...path in my home directory...';" in my
programs. They were in my home directory, so no, no one could see
them.

Ray

I think its even easier that that, from what I have seen.

If you're a non priviledged user perl will decide a path to the
modules based on that so its quite likely to be ~/perl/ blah blah.

I wanted to install modules globally so I did it as root (or in a sudo
shell).

That's only from my observations though, but its easy enough to
verify in your own environment.


Stu


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