Perl installation ignores --prefix option

[wvxvw]

I'm trying to install link-grammar into virtualenv (This is a Python way of creating a kind of isolated environment.) While Java bindings seem to honor the --prefix option, Perl tries to install into system-level directory. I don't really need Perl bindings, but I also couldn't find a way to disable them.

Here's how I've configured the project:

./configure --enable-python-bindings \
            --prefix=$(readlink -f ../bin) \
            --includedir=$(readlink -f ../includes)

The relevant output from running this is:

link-grammar-5.3.0  build configuration settings

    prefix:                         /home/wvxvw/Projects/auntie-rem/bin
    C compiler:                     gcc  -DUSE_SAT_SOLVER=1 -DHAVE_SQLITE=1 -g -O2 -O3 -std=c99 -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE
    C++ compiler:                   g++  -DUSE_SAT_SOLVER=1 -DHAVE_SQLITE=1 -g -O2 -O3 -Wall -std=c++03
    autopackage relocatable binary: no
    Posix threads:                  no
    Editline command-line history:  no
    UTF8 editline support:          no
    Java libraries:                 no
    Java interfaces:                yes
    Swig interfaces generator:      yes
    Perl interfaces:                yes
    Perl install location:          /usr/local/lib64/perl5
    Python interfaces:              yes
    ASpell spell checker:           no
    HunSpell spell checker:         no
    HunSpell dictionary location:   
    Boolean SAT parser:             yes
    SQLite-backed dictionary:       yes
    Viterbi algorithm parser:       no
    Corpus statistics database:     no
    Anysplit word splitter:         
    RegEx tokenizer:                no

When I run make install it breaks on:

make[2]: Entering directory '/home/wvxvw/Projects/auntie-rem/link-grammar/bindings/perl'
make  install-am
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/wvxvw/Projects/auntie-rem/link-grammar/bindings/perl'
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/wvxvw/Projects/auntie-rem/link-grammar/bindings/perl'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/lib64/perl5'
 /usr/bin/install -c ../../bindings/perl/clinkgrammar.pm '/usr/local/lib64/perl5'
/usr/bin/install: cannot remove ‘/usr/local/lib64/perl5/clinkgrammar.pm’: Permission denied
Makefile:496: recipe for target 'install-dist_pkgperlSCRIPTS' failed
make[4]: *** [install-dist_pkgperlSCRIPTS] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/wvxvw/Projects/auntie-rem/link-grammar/bindings/perl'
Makefile:676: recipe for target 'install-am' failed
make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/wvxvw/Projects/auntie-rem/link-grammar/bindings/perl'
Makefile:670: recipe for target 'install' failed
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/wvxvw/Projects/auntie-rem/link-grammar/bindings/perl'
Makefile:407: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/wvxvw/Projects/auntie-rem/link-grammar/bindings'
Makefile:531: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

[ampli]

I didn't investigate it deeply, but it somehow tries to remove a file from the default prefix and fails due to a permission problem (it needs superuser).

Try to install it from superuser, or use: make -k install

[wvxvw]

@ampli Yes, but that's the problem exactly: the reason for prefix install is typically that you don't have a super-user permission, and you want to install it for your current user. I'm no Perl expert, but a bit of googling suggests that the typical way to achieve this in Perl would be by means of local::lib module. But as is my case, I'd be happy if I could just avoid Perl bindings generation entirely.

[linas]

I think --disable-perl-bindings worked, once upon a time ... the configure mechanics is identical to the --enable flags, but with the opposite default.

[perstar]

My workaround has been to use PERL_EXT_LIB=XXX/perl ./configure --prefix XXX to put the perl libraries somewhere where I may.