Install XML::LibXML without root
Get a source tarball for libxml2-dev. On `apt` systems:
apt-get source libxml2-dev
Configure it to install locally, and then install it:
cd libxml2-dev/
./configure --prefix=/home/peters/perl5/alien/
make
make install
Ignoring all other options like LIBS, INC, and the rest of the stuff that's kindly recommended, you only care about showing Makefile.PL where to find xml2config:
perl Makefile.PL XMLPREFIX=~/perl5/alien/
And then it should cleanly make.
I blog about Perl.
A while back I created Alien::LibXML that installs a copy of libxml2 into one of your
@INCpaths. If you can install Perl modules, you can install it.Submitting a patch to XML::LibXML's Makefile.PL to check for Alien::LibXML has been on my TODO list for ages.
Do you have the source for your modified Alien::LibXML or anything I can do to help with the patch submission? It seems like the perfect solution for a dev environment issue I'm running into.
I suppose I could just patch it myself, but if you've already road tested it, I like not re-inventing any wheels :)
The gist of how to patch XML::LibXML's Makefile.PL can be found in this ticket.
Thanks!