Re: [Crypt::SSLeay] installing on Linux and MacOSX

On 08/14/2006 02:00 PM, Sepehr Ebrahimzadeh (Intern) wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
>  
> 
> Is it possible to have all the installation files which come from 
> Crypt-SSLeay-0.51.tar.gz into a specific directory (i.e. the perl 
> distribution directory such as /usr/perl/) 
> 

Yes, if you are installing using the CPAN shell, you can 
specify a Makefile.PL argument of PREFIX=/usr/perl. See the 
docs for CPAN for details.

> So when the perl distribution is moved to another system, packaged with 
> some application, all the Crypt-SSLeay files would still be there, 
> instead of having scattered into system /lib and /usr/lib directories? 
> [...]

You could probably do this without any problems for most 
modules except those that use binary code. The binary code 
modules would have to be re-compiled.