Installing packaged non-CPAN Perl modules

Learn how to a packaged non-CPAN Perl module.

About this task

You might want to install a non-CPAN (user-written) packaged library module. For example, you wrote and packaged a library for internal use, or downloaded one from a site other than CPAN. In that case, follow these steps. The package name in this example is Digest::SHA.

Procedure

Extract the module source code and change to the extracted source directory.
Prepare (clean) the directory for installation, assuming that your make command has a clean argument available.
```
make clean
```
Run nzenv and add each of the results to your environment.
Run the command as follows to add Netezza-specific environment variables:
```
eval `nzenv`
```

Export the following variables:

export EXE_POINTER_SIZE=32
export ABI=32
export CC
export CXX
PATH=$NZ_EXPORT_DIR/ae/sysroot/host/bin:
$NZ_EXPORT_DIR/ae/languages/perl/5.8/host/bin:${PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NZ_EXPORT_DIR/ae/sysroot/host/lib:
$NZ_EXPORT_DIR/ae/languages/perl/5.8/host/lib
export LD_RUN_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export CFLAGS=-m32
export CPPFLAGS=-m32
export CXXFLAGS=-m32
export LDFLAGS=-m32

By using the host Perl module, run the Perl makefile. Pass the prefix for the directory.

/nz/export/ae/languages/perl/5.8/host/bin/perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$
{NZ_EXPORT_DIR}/ae/applications/perl/host

Build the target.
```
make
```
Install the packaged non-CPAN Perl module.
```
make install
```

Test the installation.

/nz/export/ae/languages/perl/5.8/spu/bin/perl -e 'use Digest::SHA;'