Where to install a perl application

[george]

I've found an application I want to try out (logrep). It's written in perl and the modules expect to find other modules in a named subdirectory. I can't work out where I ought to put this directory tree.

The website says the rpm puts the files in /usr/local/logrep but (apart from there only being a tarfile, which isn't a problem) as /usr/local only contains empty directories at the moment, I can tell that this isn't the gentoo way.

While I don't mind putting the files under /usr/local to test out the application, I would like to know where I should put them. I haven't found any ebuilds for comparable apps, bugs or forum messages which shed any light on this. I did look at perl-module.eclass but this obviously addresses something quite different. All I need to do is to put the files somewhere - no building needed, no makefile or anything like one.

Can anyone point me at anything useful or give me their opinion (I can't imagine that there's a single right answer that no-one disagrees with )

TIA, George.

[gwolf]

As I understand you have some perl modules (.pm) and you need to put them some place where Perl can find them.
I would place them under
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/
or something similar, depending on your Perl version.

[TrueDFX]

My opinion would be to install the main program in /usr/bin and the modules in /usr/lib/logrep, or perhaps stuff it all in /usr/lib/logrep and create a symlink in /usr/bin. No point in installing private modules for use by all applications. But that's just my opinion, and as you posted, others may have entirely different opinions.

[george]

As I understand you have some perl modules (.pm) and you need to put them some place where Perl can find them.
I would place them under
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/
or something similar, depending on your Perl version.

Not quite...

There's a bin directory containing *.pl.
Each .pl has lines similar to

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use FindBin qw($Bin);
use lib "$Bin/util/perl";

which (if I'm guessing right as I don't know perl) tells perl to look in a subdirectory of bin for modules.

The subdirectories have *.pm among other files.

As I read this, I have to keep the directory tree under bin or I would have to go through each file and edit paths. For trying out the app, at least, it's not worth working out what to edit.