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authorGeert Hauwaerts <geert@hauwaerts.be>2015-09-27 10:04:24 +0200
committerGeert Hauwaerts <geert@hauwaerts.be>2015-09-27 10:04:24 +0200
commit696bc43baca1b7be2711046803a58856eedc5e6b (patch)
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Merge pull request #305 from dequis/install-doc-mention-local-lib
INSTALL: mention local::lib for home directory installations
-rw-r--r--INSTALL4
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 719369de..a83a6c76 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -94,6 +94,10 @@ things that can go wrong:
- If configure complains that it doesn't find some perl stuff, you're
probably missing libperl.so or libperl.a. In debian, you'll need to do
apt-get install libperl-dev
+ - For unprivileged home directory installations, using the local::lib CPAN
+ module is recommended. Read its docs, bootstrap it if needed, ensure that
+ the environment variables are set before running the configure script, and
+ append "--with-perl-lib=site" to the configure parameters to use it.
You can verify that the perl module is loaded and working with "/LOAD"
command. It should print something like: