I want to ship a Perl app (a rapid-prototyping development tool, and demo of XSUB) for MacOSX, and because it is for Cocoa applications (Objective C, Distributed Objects) I don't expect end-users to need Admin rights to the Library tree during final-app installation.
Note: The demo calls a 'Perl To Objective C Bridge' which ships with recent versions of MacOSX.
I have a work-around:
Developers install their resulting app locally with Admin rights and then bundle files for end-users so the end-user won't need Admin rights.
Request For Information:
What would be great is to make a change to Makefile.PL or use a command-line arg such that files don't get copied to '/Library/Perl/Darwin' by 'make install' .
Here is the workaround:
LOGGED IN WITH ADMIN RIGHTS:
## From first principals as generated by h2xs -A -n Foo (here, MathSystem)
##
## MathSystem.xs
## MathSystem.pm
## Makefile.PL
## Changes
## MANIFEST
## test.pl
##
## plus value added files:
## mathServer.pm
## mathClient.pm
make clean
perl MakeFile.PL
make install
## Now, copy what we've made at the EXPECTED place (ie. from the Admin-restricted tree)
## to the current working tree
##
mkdir auto
mkdir auto/MathSystem
cp -rf /Library/Perl/darwin/auto/MathSystem/* ./auto/MathSystem/.
## and fix ownership:
chown -R george *
## and uninstall...and remove the remainder by hand...
rm /Library/Perl/darwin/mathServer.pm
rm /Library/Perl/darwin/mathClient.pm
rm /Library/Perl/darwin/MathSystem.pm
rm -rf /Library/Perl/darwin/auto/MathSystem
NOW LOGGED IN WITHOUT ADMIN RIGHTS:
The app runs OK.
So I tar the files and use them on another MacOSX system without ever logging in as Admin, the app runs OK.
**But can I avoid the need to be logged in as Admin in this process? An edit to Makefile.PL perhaps? (I tried the INSTALLDIR= arg, but files still get copied to '/Library/Perl/Darwin', and thus requires Admin rights to run the install.
