Mailing List Archive: Two Perls?

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Stefan Zauchenberger wrote:

> Does anyone have any experience installing SpamAssassin with a separate
> instance of Perl?

Yes, I've built and installed SpamAssassin under perl 5.6.1 installed in a
user directory on a host that has perl 5.00503 as the "real" installation.
Works fine.

> Is compiling/making the proudct with the correct preceding perl path
> sufficient for correct setup?

Probably. You may also need to assign a value for PREFIX when you run
Makefile.PL, e.g.:

/path/to/private/bin/perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/path/to/private

I actually performed the install using the CPAN shell:

o conf makepl_arg 'PREFIX=/path/to/private'
test Mail::SpamAssassin
install Mail::SpamAssassin

And then optionally:

o conf makepl_arg ''

(to get rid of the setting if it's not needed for future CPANning).

> Lastly, will the appropriate SpamAssassin perl module be created and be
> accessible for other applications?

Yes, provided those other applications also run the "private" perl.