I have used perlbrew to install a new version of perl and all works well. I can install most modules from CPAN without a problem. However, I don't know how to install external libraries - e.g. libgd - in a way that my new perl can find them. Up to this I was using MacPorts for this purpose but it installs the libraries in /opt/local/ and compiles them against the version of perl found there. Any help would be most appreciated.

Update: Thanks to taint and syphilis, and a simple question from anony monk, I have it working now. I can continue to install external libraries using MacPorts and adding the following line to my bash profile 

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH

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Then, when installing modules I invoke cpan with my perlbrew perl (this was my lightbulb moment believe it or not) 
sudo /Users/user/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.14.1/bin/perl5.14.1 -MCPA
+N -e shell

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and all is hunky dory, modules get installed in my perlbrew path and can use the libraries installed in my MacPorts path.

In reply to Installing external libraries for perlbrew perl by bangor

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