I'm not sure that using a non absolute path as in 

INSTALLDIRS=sun4-solaris
is right.

In any case, I've had good luck with 

perl Makefile.PL LIB=/home/me/lib
, so I think 
perl Makefile.PL LIB=/apps/midb/perl_5.005/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris
might do the trick.

update: re-read your post, particularly "The system I inherited has Perl (version 5.00503) installed in a non-standard location,. If perl was made and installed properly in the non-standard location, it should contain the paths, and you should be able to do the classic install with no additional parms to the "perl Makefile.PL".

--Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com

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In reply to Re: Installing XML Module in Alternate Directory by bobn
in thread Installing XML Module in Alternate Directory by roho

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