[Bioperl-l] installation problem

[Elia Stupka]

> The PREFIX value is used to install, as in :
> perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr/home/<username>/usr/local
> The PERL5LIB variable is used to access the modules after they're installed,
> but is not used by any scripts for the purposes of installing modules, if
> I'm not mistaken. The page I cited goes into the details.

Absolutely, you are right, but what I was trying to say is that with perl
you do not *need* to install the modules, you can actually *use* them,
without them being installed. I can just write a perl module now, put it
in my PERL5LIB and it will very happily work. Not perfect, but good to
know if you just want to use something without too much hassle.

Elia


> 
> Brian O.
> 
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Elia Stupka [mailto:elia@fugu-sg.org] 
> Sent:	Monday, November 05, 2001 11:30 PM
> To:	Osborne, Brian
> Cc:	'Yi Xing'; Bioperl
> Subject:	RE: [Bioperl-l] installation problem
> 
> > You have some options. One is to install all the modules in your own home
> > directory, and you do this by modifying the commonly used PREFIX value.
> > Here's a page that describes how this is done :
> 
> Actually you can just keep the modules in your home, and set the PERL5LIB
> environment variable to read it from there.
> 
> Elia
> 
> 

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