Bug#410086: perl: cpan installs man pages in a wrong directory

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 04:57:22AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I still have that:
> 
> cpan[4]> o conf makepl_arg
>     makepl_arg         [PREFIX=/home/vlefevre SITELIBEXP=/home/vlefevre/lib/site_perl LIB=/home/vlefevre/lib/site_perl INSTALLMAN1DIR=/home/vlefevre/share/man/man1 INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR=/home/vlefevre/share/man/man1 INSTALLMAN3DIR=/home/vlefevre/share/man/man3 INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR=/home/vlefevre/share/man/man3]
> Type 'o conf' to view all configuration items
> 
> but this no longer has any effect. When I want to install Sys::Info,
> I get errors:
> 
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> ERROR: Can't create '/usr/local/man/man3'
> mkdir /usr/local/man/man3: Permission denied at /usr/share/perl/5.14/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 494
> 
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>  at /usr/share/perl5/Module/Build/Base.pm line 3578
> 
> Then I tried:
> 
> $ cpan
> cpan> o conf makepl_arg INSTALL_BASE=/home/vlefevre
> cpan> o conf commit
> cpan> install Sys::Info
> 
> and ditto with
> 
>   o conf mbuild_arg --install_base /home/vlefevre
> 
> as suggested on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/251705/how-can-i-use-a-new-perl-module-without-install-permissions
> and on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9409888/when-using-cpan-in-linux-ubuntu-should-i-run-it-using-sudo-as-root-or-as-my-de

With a fresh installation, the first time I run cpan it offers to
configure this for me, and puts the following in my ~/.bashrc:

export PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT="/home/dom/perl5";
export PERL_MB_OPT="--install_base /home/dom/perl5";
export PERL_MM_OPT="INSTALL_BASE=/home/dom/perl5";
export PERL5LIB="/home/dom/perl5/lib/perl5/i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int:/home/dom/perl5/lib/perl5";
export PATH="/home/dom/perl5/bin:$PATH";

Please could you try moving your ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm out of the way
and let me know if the automatically configured approach works for you?

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