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Posted by Richard L. Trethewey on June 29, 2005, 8:47 pm
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Thanks for your help. I did manage to install the module without using Make. I
was also able to get some advice as to how I might use a shell script to execute
Make in the future.
Richard L. Trethewey
Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Richard L. Trethewey wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to install a CPAN module into my website's local cgi-bin
>> directory and I just can't seem to translate the common documentation
>> into something I can use online. I have unzipped the module files, and
>> executed the accompanying Makefile.pl, and it looks to me like I got
>> the correct PREFIX setting in the resulting "Makefile". But that's
>> where I'm stuck. I need to simulate the common CPAN command-line
>> commands:
>>
>> % make
>> % make test
>> % make install
>>
>> remotely. I think I should be able to write a Perl script to execute
>> these commands, right? Host is running FreeBSD/Apache.
>
>
> It sounds as if you have an account without shell access, and that you
> are thinking of writing and uploading a CGI script that would install
> the module for you. Even if that may be possible, under certain
> conditions, the first thing you should do is finding out if it's a plain
> Perl module, or a module that needs to be precompiled.
>
> If the former is true, it may be sufficient to simply upload the *.pm
> file(s). The docs for
> guidance that is applicable in that case.
>
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