Description:

According to npm-folders (https://www.npmjs.org/doc/global.html), global installs should be placed under the location set in the 'prefix' config variable. This doesn't seem to be working--instead, npm tries to install the package into the default location as if prefix wasn't set.


Additional info:

* package version is 0.10.29-1


Steps to reproduce:

$ npm get prefix

/usr

$ npm set prefix $HOME/npm-install

$ npm get prefix

/home/me/npm-install

$ npm install -g underscore

npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/underscore'
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/underscore']
npm ERR! errno: 3,
npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! path: '/usr/lib/node_modules/underscore',
npm ERR! fstream_type: 'Directory',
npm ERR! fstream_path: '/usr/lib/node_modules/underscore',
npm ERR! fstream_class: 'DirWriter',
npm ERR! fstream_stack:
npm ERR! [ '/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23',
npm ERR! '/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:37:53',
npm ERR! 'Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)' ] }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! System Linux 3.15.1-1-ARCH
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "underscore"
npm ERR! cwd /home/me
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.29
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.14
npm ERR! path /usr/lib/node_modules/underscore
npm ERR! fstream_path /usr/lib/node_modules/underscore
npm ERR! fstream_type Directory
npm ERR! fstream_class DirWriter
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno 3
npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/underscore'
npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23
npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:37:53
npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/me/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0