[Bioperl-l] Bug 1386

[Brian Osborne]

Prachi,

Thank you. The MakeMaker docs also don't distinguish these two much.

Brian O.

-----Original Message-----
From: Prachi Shah [mailto:prachi_shroff at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 9:41 AM
To: Brian Osborne; bioperl-l at bioperl.org
Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] Bug 1386

Hi Brain,

I have been using PREFIX a lot and it definitely
works. And after installing to a non-standard location
using PREFIX, the scripts still only need
use lib qw( /where/I/want/it );

Prachi.

--- Brian Osborne <brian_osborne at cognia.com> wrote:
> Bioperl-l,
>
> Gordon is saying:
>
> The INSTALL file for Bio::Perl suggests using:
>
>   perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/.../.../...
>
> to install in a non-standard location.  I think the
> best way to do this is
> to
> use:
>
>   perl Makefile.PL LIB=/where/I/want/it
>
> and then the scripts just need to have:
>
>  use lib qw( /where/I/want/it );
>
> This should always work as it ignores all INSTALL*
> values and really does
> put
> everything under LIB in the correct way.
>
>
> Can someone confirm that what Gordon says is true? I
> can't, I usually have
> sudo available. If so we can resolve Bug 1386.
>
> Brian O.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bioperl-l mailing list
> Bioperl-l at bioperl.org
> http://bioperl.org/mailman/listinfo/bioperl-l


__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online
http://webhosting.yahoo.com