This may seem trivial, but it is something that I have wondered about for a while.

I have to install perl modules in my user directory, so I use perl Makefile.PL prefix=/home/ajdelore.

What I have noticed is that they seem to get installed in two different directories, seemingly without any reason:

/home/ajdelore/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
/home/ajdelore/lib/perl5/5.00502

Is there a reason for this? What is the difference between the two directories? Does the installdirs flag have anything to do with it?

Also, I have sub-directories in the above called auto/, sun4-solaris/, and sun4-solaris/auto/ that seem to contain empty sub-directories named after installed modules. What is going on here?

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In reply to Location of perl libraries under unix by ajdelore

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