[Zope-Perl] help with book

[Michel Pelletier]

Gisle Aas wrote:
> 
> Michel Pelletier <michel@digicool.com> writes:
> 
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I'm putting together a sandbox to do some zope with perl testing.  I got
> > the beta 2 of pyperl and zoperl, and they recomment I have my own
> > private patches of perl and python.  Do I need the stable or devel
> > perl?  Py 1.5.2 or 2.0 beta?  Thanks in advance...
> 
> The README.txt file of Zope-2.2.2 states that "Zope requires Python
> 1.5.2", so that is what I recommend too.  There is one patch that you
> need to apply to python-1.5.2 before you build it.
> 
> For perl you can currently select between perl-5.6.0 or perl-5.7.0.  I
> have been running with perl-5.7.0 recently.  No extra patching
> required for this perl.  If you use perl-5.6.0 then you need to apply
> the 'perl-method-G_EVAL' and 'perl-vcroak-null' patch before you
> build.  You must build perl with the -Dusethreads option.

Ok, cool, I'm getting closer but it fails here:

  - make sure your PATH is set up so that 'perl' and 'python'
    reference the versions of the language interpreters that you
    want to use.  Might be a good idea to use private patched
    versions of the language interpreters for now.

  - If you are using Python-1.5.2, then you need to install
    the Distutils package version 0.9 or better first.

  - Run these commands:

      (cd Python-Object; perl Makefile.PL; make install)
      python setup.py install


The 'make install' fails.  The thing I don't get is how it finds my
custom patched python and perl by PATH alone, I certainly don't want to
install them over my system binaries.  Any tips here?

Thanks,

-Michel