Thanks for the clue of install_path.

This did not work ... 

--install_path /some/dir/perl/etc

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... needed to do ... 

--install_path etc=/some/dir/perl/etc

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... "worked" in the sense installation did not fail due to permission error; have yet to try running the software. If that would still be a problem, then just /have to/ edit the damn installed file(s).

All in all, setting various paths is damn fucking fiddly to install software in a user-controlled directory. Much less irritating was building own perl (& installing in user-controlled directory) and using that perl to install everything else. But decision is not mine to make :-|

In reply to Re^2: Module::Build- Overriding default $Config{installprefix} (cpan Distroprefs ) by Anonymous Monk
in thread Module::Build- Overriding default $Config{installprefix} by Anonymous Monk

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