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Get ExtUtils::MakeMaker to install in local/ like carton

I use carton and it’s local/ directory for alot of projects. I ran into an issue where I needed to install something into local by hand.

Often you can accomplish this with cpanm like so:

$ cpanm -l local Math-Pari-2.01080900.zip

But if you need to provide special parameters to the build phase/system, you can do something along the lines of:

$ unzip Math-Pari-2.01080900.zip

$ cd Math-Pari-2.01080900

$ perl Makefile.PL --parilib=~/pari-2.1.7 LIB=~/dev/project/local/lib

$ make && make test && make install

And the product of your build should end up in the right place. Do note the lib and the end of the path, which is one of the standard directories in local maintained by carton.

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