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@@ -17,7 +17,13 @@ Or at least I get CGI errors and running ikiwiki.cgi manually fails too:
 Server has an older ikiwiki installed but I'd like to use a newer version from git, and I don't have root access.
 
 > You can't set `PERL5LIB` in `ENV` in a setup file, because ikiwiki is already
 Server has an older ikiwiki installed but I'd like to use a newer version from git, and I don't have root access.
 
 > You can't set `PERL5LIB` in `ENV` in a setup file, because ikiwiki is already

-> running before it reads that, and so it has little effect. Your error
+> running before it reads that, and so it has little effect.
+>> That's [fixed now](http://source.ikiwiki.branchable.com/?p=source.git;a=commitdiff;h=9d928bd69496648cd7a2d4542a2d533992c01757;hp=f574bc2ed470b60f576a2906998bc7c129f2f983)
+>> for anything invoked through the generated wrappers: they put all the setup `ENV`
+>> values into the real environment before starting Perl. (When running `ikiwiki` at the
+>> command line, `PERL5LIB` just has to be in the environment, as it would normally be.)
+>
+> Your error

 > messages do look like a new bin/ikiwiki is using an old version of
 > `IkiWiki.pm`.
 > 
 > messages do look like a new bin/ikiwiki is using an old version of
 > `IkiWiki.pm`.
 > 


@@ -31,3 +37,8 @@ Server has an older ikiwiki installed but I'd like to use a newer version from g
 > Then `$HOME/bin/ikiwiki` will have hardcoded into it to look
 > for ikiwiki's perl modules in `$HOME/lib/perl5/`
 > (This is documented in the README file by the way.) --[[Joey]] 
 > Then `$HOME/bin/ikiwiki` will have hardcoded into it to look
 > for ikiwiki's perl modules in `$HOME/lib/perl5/`
 > (This is documented in the README file by the way.) --[[Joey]] 

+
+>> Ok, *perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=$HOME/bin PREFIX=* finally did it for me. I tried too many things with
+>> these paths so I wasn't sure which actually worked. After that I did 
+>> *$ ikiwiki --setup www.setup --wrappers --rebuild*. Somehow in this update mess I seem to have lost the user
+>> accounts, maybe the --rebuild was too much.