I've got a shared-hosting account where I configured my CPAN to do all sorts of installs into a ~/perlmods dir so I can install modules without root rights: Still there seems to be one step which I haven't modified to go into my relative dir... (or is this one hardcoded in the mod?) 
Running Build install
Prepending /home/isync/.cpan/build/KinoSearch-0.30_122-jGNB5K/blib/arc
+h /home/isync/.cpan/build/KinoSearch-0.30_122-jGNB5K/blib/lib to PERL
+5LIB for 'install'
Building KinoSearch
Files found in blib/arch: installing files in blib/lib into architectu
+re dependent library tree
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+!!
ERROR: Can't create '/usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0'
mkdir /usr/local/lib/perl: Permission denied at /usr/share/perl/5.10/E
+xtUtils/Install.pm line 479

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+!!
 at /home/isync/perlmods/share/perl/5.10/Module/Build/Base.pm line 333
+4
  CREAMYG/KinoSearch-0.30_122.tar.gz
  ./Build install  -- NOT OK

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my CPAN/MyConfig.pm: 
$CPAN::Config = {
  'auto_commit' => q[1],
  'build_cache' => q[100],
  'build_dir' => q[/home/isync/.cpan/build],
  'cache_metadata' => q[1],
  'commandnumber_in_prompt' => q[1],
  'cpan_home' => q[/home/isync/.cpan],
  'ftp_passive' => q[1],
  'ftp_proxy' => q[],
  'http_proxy' => q[],
  'inactivity_timeout' => q[0],
  'index_expire' => q[1],
  'inhibit_startup_message' => q[0],
  'keep_source_where' => q[/home/isync/.cpan/sources],
  'make_arg' => q[],
  'make_install_arg' => q[],
  'make_install_make_command' => q[/usr/bin/make],
  'makepl_arg' => q[PREFIX=~/perlmods],
  'mbuild_arg' => q[],
  'mbuild_install_arg' => q[],
  'mbuild_install_build_command' => q[./Build],
  'mbuildpl_arg' => q[PREFIX=~/perlmods],
  'no_proxy' => q[],
  'prerequisites_policy' => q[follow],
  'scan_cache' => q[atstart],
  'show_upload_date' => q[0],
  'term_ornaments' => q[1],
  'urllist' => [q[ftp://cpan.erlbaum.net/CPAN/], q[ftp://cpan.mirrors.
+tds.net/pub/CPAN], q[ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/perl/]],
  'use_sqlite' => q[0],
};
1;
__END_

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So, which step of CPAN triggers this "ERROR: Can't create '/usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0'" - so I can tell it to go into ~/perlmods?

As I understand it, I've managed to tell the make process behind CPAN which is triggered by ExtUtils::MakeMaker to use a custom PERL_LIB var, but not that it should also override the PERL_ARCHLIB var, right? How can I do this?

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