Re: [mv] Installer cant find Perl

[Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>]

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Quoting Ed LaFrance (edl@newmediaems.com):
> ******    message to minivend-users from Ed LaFrance <edl@newmediaems.com>     ******
> 
> At 05:57 AM 6/1/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >******    message to minivend-users from Mike Heins 
> ><mikeh@minivend.com>     ******
> >
> >Quoting Ed LaFrance (edl@newmediaems.com):
> > > Mike H. has previously suggested building my own perl installation to take
> > > control of that aspect of the process.  I am just about frustrated enough
> > > to try it.  Can anyone provide some straight-forward pointers on how to do
> > > this on a shared virtual server?
> > >
> >
> >It is simplicity:
> >
> >         tar xzvf latest.tar.gz
> >         cd perl*
> >         ./Configure -Dprefix=~ -des && make test
> >         make install
> >         perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::Minivend'
> >
> >--
> 
> Thank you Mike, this will go in my personal archive.  In the interim, I 
> applied some light pressure to the ISP's support department, and they fixed 
> the problem.  I asked them to describe what they did, so I can share it 
> with the MV community, and they responded:
> 
> "Dear valued customer:  #(insert name here :-/)
> There were permission problems for the tmp directory that wouldn't allow 
> all to write there. "
> 

Another workaround would be to do:

	mkdir ~/tmp
	[if environment shell =~ /t?csh/ ]
	setenv TEMP /home/user/tmp
	setenv TMP /home/user/tmp
	[else]
	export TEMP=/home/user/tmp
	export TMP=/home/user/tmp
	[else]
	[/if]

Perl and Minivend will use $ENV{TEMP} or $ENV{TMP} instead of /tmp
if defined.

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