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Get ExtUtils::MakeMaker to install in local/ like carton

I use carton and it's local/ directory for alot of projects. I ran into an issue where I needed to install something into local by hand.

Often you can accomplish this with cpanm like so:

$ cpanm -l local Math-Pari-2.01080900.zip

But if you need to provide special parameters to the build phase/system, you can do something along the lines of:

$ unzip Math-Pari-2.01080900.zip

$ cd Math-Pari-2.01080900

$ perl Makefile.PL --parilib=~/pari-2.1.7 LIB=~/dev/project/local/lib

$ make && make test && make install

And the product of your build should end up in the right place. Do note the lib/ and the end of the path, which is one of the standard directories in local/ maintained by carton.

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