Move make, tar and gzip before Perl

[Armin]

When I try to install perl module via CPAN, it tells me:

# cpan -i Gtk2
Reading '/root/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:07:03 GMT
Running install for module 'Gtk2'
Running make for X/XA/XAOC/Gtk2-1.246.tar.gz
Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/X/XA/XAOC/Gtk2-1.246.tar.gz ok
sh: /tools/bin/gzip: No such file or directory
sh: /tools/bin/tar: No such file or directory
Uncompressed /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/X/XA/XAOC/Gtk2-1.246.tar.gz successfully
Using Tar:/tools/bin/tar xf "Gtk2-1.246.tar":
sh: /tools/bin/tar: No such file or directory

It looks like perl/cpan hardcodes such paths at build time. I think that I had same problem with "make", but I moved it before perl in my setup.

[bdubbs@…]

Can you check which file has tools embedded? I grepped through all the files in /usr/lib/perl5, /root/.cpan, and /usr/bin/perl and can't find the path set. cpan is a text file and it's not there either.

[Armin]

Hm, I've grepped too, but couldn't find anything. It looks like cpan hardcodes it in it's config directory (~/.cpan) when it is ran for the first time. I've removed ~/.cpan directory and everything started working. False alert.