I'm attempting to build a statically compiled version of Apache/mod_perl using a localized version of Perl 5.8.6 installed in my home directory. For the most part, everything is running smoothly except now I've run into a problem with MakeMaker.pm. When I try to run the Makefile.PL for mod_perl, MakeMaker complains that it can't find the Perl headers. Reviewing the perldoc for MakeMaker, it appears that PERL_INC should override this behavior, but it still keeps trying to find the headers under /usr/local instead of ~/perl5.

Here are all the steps I used to get to this point:

$ mkdir ~/perl5 ~/apache
$ cd perl-5.8.6
$ sh Configure -Umymalloc -des
$ make
$ make test
$ make install DESTDIR=~/perl5
$ mv ~/perl5/usr/local/* ~/perl5/
$ rm -rf ~/perl5/usr/
$ export PERL5LIB=~/perl5/lib/perl5/5.8.6:~/perl5/lib/perl5/site_perl/
+5.8.6
$ cd ../mod_perl-1.29/
$ export PERL_INC=~/perl5/lib/perl5/5.8.6/x86_64-linux/CORE
$ ~/perl5/bin/perl Makefile.PL \
       PREFIX=~/perl5 \
       APACHE_PREFIX=~/apache \
       APACHE_SRC=../apache_1.3.33/src \
       DO_HTTPD=1 \
       PREP_HTTPD=1 \
       EVERYTHING=1 \
       USE_APACI=1
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And the trailing error:

Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code.

It is recommended that you install perl in a standard location before
building extensions. Some precompiled versions of perl do not contain
these header files, so you cannot build extensions. In such a case,
please build and install your perl from a fresh perl distribution. It
usually solves this kind of problem.

(You get this message, because MakeMaker could not find "/usr/local/li
+b/perl5/5.8.6/x86_64-linux/CORE/perl.h")
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Why does it continue to look in /usr/local instead of ~/perl5?

Update: I fixed it by properly installing the local perl with the prefix option. Full instructions for a non-root static Apache/mod_perl 1.x installation...

$ mkdir ~/perl5 ~/apache
$ cd perl-5.8.6
$ sh Configure -Umymalloc -des -Dprefix=~/perl5
$ make
$ make test
$ make install
$ export PERL5LIB=~/perl5/lib/5.8.6:~/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.6
$ cd ../mod_perl-1.29/
$ ~/perl5/bin/perl Makefile.PL \
       PREFIX=~/perl5 \
       APACHE_PREFIX=~/apache \
       APACHE_SRC=../apache_1.3.33/src \
       DO_HTTPD=1 \
       PREP_HTTPD=1 \
       EVERYTHING=1 \
       USE_APACI=1
$ make
$ make install
$ cd ../apache_1.3.33
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/apache \
       --with-layout=Apache \
       --disable-rule=EXPAT \
       --enable-module=rewrite \
       --activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a \
       --disable-shared=perl
$ make
$ make install
$ cd ../Apache-Session-1.6
$ ~/perl5/bin/perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/perl5
$ make
$ make install
$ cd ../libapreq-1.33
$ ~/perl5/bin/perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/perl5
$ make
$ make install
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Thanks,

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