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The simplest way to do this is to quit the interactive shell by typing
quit and reenter it. But if you insist here is how to make it work
without quitting the shell. You really want to skip this 🙂

If you want to continue working with CPAN without
quitting the shell, you must:

1. remember the value
   of makepl_arg
2. change it to suit
   your new installation
3. build and install
   mod_perl
4. restore it after
   completing mod_perl installation

this is quite a cumbersome task as of this writing, but I believe that
CPAN.pm will eventually be improved to handle this more easily.

So if you are still with me, start the shell as usual:

  % perl -MCPAN -eshell


 First, read the value of the makepl_arg: 
  cpan> o conf makepl_arg 

  PREFIX=/home/stas


 It will be something like PREFIX=/home/stas if you configured

CPAN.pm to install modules locally. Save this value: 
  cpan> o conf makepl_arg.save PREFIX=/home/stas


 Second, set a new value, to be used by the mod_perl installation process.

(You can add parameters to this line, or remove them, according to your needs.)

To wit: 
  cpan> o conf makepl_arg 'DO_HTTPD=1 USE_APACI=1 EVERYTHING=1         PREFIX=/home/stas APACHE_PREFIX=/home/stas/apache'


 Third, let CPAN.pm build and install mod_perl for you: 
  cpan> install mod_perl


 Fourth, reset the original value to makepl_arg. We do this by

printing the value of the saved variable and assigning it to

makepl_arg:
  cpan> o conf makepl_arg.save

  PREFIX=/home/stas


  cpan> o conf makepl_arg PREFIX=/home/stas


 Not so neat, but a working solution. You could have written the value on a

piece of paper instead of saving it to makepl_arg.save, but you

are more likely to make a mistake that way. 
References



 The Apache site’s URL: http://www.apache.org 



 The mod_perl site’s URL: http://perl.apache.org 



 CPAN is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. The master site’s URL

is http://cpan.org/. CPAN is mirrored at more

than one hundred sites around the world. (http://cpan.org/SITES.html) 


About the Author

Stas Bekman is an author of

the mod_perl Guide and is currently

co-athoring a book about mod_perl for O’Reilly and

Associates, Inc together with Eric

Cholet. He is a member of the Apache

Software Foundation. You can find more about his works and joys at his

personal web site.