Hi Monks

I am working with a colleague that has a somewhat tricky perl installation question. They have typically built a directory under root partition, say /MyDirectory where they store their applications. As part of this directory, they have a subdirectory, say /MyDirectory/soft/perl, where they compile perl5 for use in their apps.
They would like to be able to move the tree under /MyDirectory to somewhere other than the root partition that they currently store into. Is there some environmental variable in Perl which can be used to change where Perl expects to find builds of itself? In an ideal world, they would like to move an already compiled and installed perl5 installtion to a different place and get it to work correctly by setting up some environmental variables

Thanks for your help.

MadraghRua
yet another biologist hacking perl....

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