I don't know if I'm doing this right... I'm using a server provider that doesn't allow me to install into standard perl locations, so I used PREFIX to install things in my home dir. The problem is that when the wrapper is run by the CGI server, it can't find the perl modules I installed. There didn't seem to be a way to set the PERL5LIB from the standard config, so I added one. Patch attached. Or did I miss something and this was already possible?
-diff --git a/IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm b/IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm
-index 79b9eb3..e88118b 100644
---- a/IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm
-+++ b/IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm
-@@ -37,6 +41,13 @@ sub gen_wrapper () { #{{{
- EOF
- }
-
-+ my $wrapperperllib="";
-+ if (defined $config{wrapperperl5lib}) {
-+ $wrapperperllib =<<"EOF"
-+ newenviron[i++]="PERL5LIB=$config{wrapperperl5lib}";
-+EOF
-+ }
-+
- $Data::Dumper::Indent=0; # no newlines
- my $configstring=Data::Dumper->Dump([\%config], ['*config']);
- $configstring=~s/\\/\\\\/g;
-@@ -72,6 +83,7 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv) {
- $envsave
- newenviron[i++]="HOME=$ENV{HOME}";
- newenviron[i++]="WRAPPED_OPTIONS=$configstring";
-+$wrapperperllib
- newenviron[i]=NULL;
- environ=newenviron;
-
+> The standard way to do it is to set `INSTALL_BASE=$HOME` when running
+> `Makefile.PL`. If you do this, ikiwiki will be built with a special `use
+> lib $HOME` line inserted, that will make it look in the specified
+> directory for perl modules.
+>
+> The [[tips/nearlyfreespeech]] tip has an example of doing this.
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Thanks! I found that page, but didn't recognise the importance of INSTALL_BASE.
+
+>> It looks like INSTALL_BASE only appeared in version 6.31 of the Perl MakeMaker. My provider is still running version 6.30. Looks like I'll be keeping my patches for the moment... sigh.