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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Stefan Zauchenberger <st...@yahoo.com> on 2004/02/17 05:34:39 UTC

Two Perls?

Does anyone have any experience installing
SpamAssassin with a separate instance of Perl? Is
compiling/making the proudct with the correct
preceding perl path sufficient for correct setup?

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

Please advise...anyone?


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Re: Two Perls?

Posted by Bart Schaefer <sc...@zanshin.com>.

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.