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`.
>
cd ikiwiki
perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=$HOME PREFIX=
- make install
+ make install
> Then `$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.