Hello,
I have a set of modules that i had developed and installed locally using the PREFIX= option.
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/mylocal/path
make;make test;make install
It had installed all the modules under
/mylocal/path/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0

The other day I had to make modification to one of the modules. So I did, and then executed
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/mylocal/path
make;make test;make install

Well I was hoping that the originally installed module under /mylocal/path/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 would get replaced.
However what i noticed is it installed a complete new copy under /mylocal/path/share/perl5

I had built the module directory structure using h2xs.
I am assuming when I initially installed the modules, probably the perl version was 5.10.0 Currently the perl version is v5.10.1 (probably the sysadmin upgraded the system or something).

Question
1) What did i do wrong? and
2) How can I fix this such that any changes and re-install to an existing module will over-write the original one instead of creating a new copy under the share directory.

Thanks

In reply to Question on installing modules in local dir using PREFIX by Anonymous Monk

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