Hello, I installed a Linux distribution and Perl about 4 or 5 years ago and I haven't touched the configuration since. I plan to install a new distribution soon and in looking over the Perl installation I think I may have problems. I used to install modules into a nonstandard directory, e.g. /Data/Perl and then set the environmental variable PERL5LIB to point to the correct directories. The reason for doing that is that it makes it easier to test a module and determine whether or not to keep or remove it rather install it into the /usr libraries. I did this, if I recall correctly, by using make --prefix=/Data/Perl or something similar. It seems with the recent modules I can't do that. I suppose I could hand edit the Makefile, but I'll probably goof up. So the questions are: 1. Am I correct in assuming that the --prefix= option is gone now? 2. An suggestions on how to install into an unofficial directory and set an environmental variable to point to it? Thanks in advance for your help klee12

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