bash-2.05$ perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/LIB

Writing Makefile for Blah::Simple

bash-2.05$ ls -al

total 161
drwxr-xr-x  6 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 08:36 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 02:12 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon     163 Nov 18 08:35 Changes
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon     400 Nov 18 08:35 MANIFEST
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon   17018 Nov 18 08:36 Makefile      <----- Now 1 minute past
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon     307 Nov 18 08:35 Makefile.PL   <-----
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon    6828 Nov 18 08:35 README
drwxr-xr-x  2 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 02:12 Simple
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon  118167 Nov 18 08:35 Simple.pm
drwxr-xr-x  2 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 02:12 html
drwxr-xr-x  2 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 02:12 misc
drwxr-xr-x  3 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 02:12 t

bash-2.05$ make

mkdir blib
mkdir blib/lib
[now we are cooking...]