Library path question

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 8/13/05, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   One thing I noticed is that when you uncompress the tarball, the
> commandline utility can be run without installing if you cd to to the
> directory containing it.  To get it to run from anywhere, you need to
> 
>    perl Makefile.PL
>    make
>    make test
>    make install
> 
> with the last step requiring root access.  I assume this copies libs to
> some place on the libpath?  Would it be possible to just uncompress it
> to a regular user's directory, and append the path to LIBPATH, or
> whatever?
> 

For a Perl script, that would be PERL5LIB or PERLLIB.
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