[ic] IC - Installation on virtual servers part II

Mike Heins mikeh@minivend.com
Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:00:44 -0400


Quoting Hansraj Pankhania (itnc@themutual.net):
> Mike,
> 
> Thanks for the cpan_local_install, I've tried the V 0.2,  and it has
> installed what i think is all the required CPAN modules to my home (
> home/mysite/Interchange ) directory on my ISP virtual server.
> 
> I then tried to run :-
> 
> perl Makefile.PL make make test && make install
> 
> but 'perl Makefile.PL' kept asking me the same questions as your
> cpan_local_install script and so kept running into installation problems as
> if i was running ./configure script.
> 
> Mike, correct me if I'm wrong, was this cpan_local_install script mean't to
> replace Makefile.PL. If so, I have looked at the Makefile.PL script but
> cannot located the point I need to start from inorder to finish off the
> Interchange 4.5.7 installation/setup, and to setup the demo.
> 

I have done some extensive testing, and I have eliminated the previous
module checks. If you get the latest from CVS, it should work.

In any case, if you get Interchange installed, just run cpan_local_install
from the interchange directory and everything should work fine.

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