The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit e65993b1968d1a832b7bffacd6e4b1480299eda3
Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Sep 29 06:06:29 2011 +0200

    build: Let the user override PERL_LIBDIR at configure time
    
    The variable is declared as precious via AC_ARG_VAR, but assigned to
    unconditionally.

diff --git a/m4/dpkg-progs.m4 b/m4/dpkg-progs.m4
index 616a783..47c8690 100644
--- a/m4/dpkg-progs.m4
+++ b/m4/dpkg-progs.m4
@@ -12,9 +12,12 @@ if test "$PERL" = "no" || test ! -x "$PERL"; then
   AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find the Perl interpreter])
 fi
 AC_ARG_VAR([PERL_LIBDIR], [Perl library directory])dnl
+# Let the user override the variable.
+if test -z "$PERL_LIBDIR"; then
 PERL_LIBDIR=$($PERL -MConfig -e 'my $r = $Config{vendorlibexp};
                                  $r =~ s/$Config{vendorprefixexp}/\$(prefix)/;
-                                 print $r')dnl
+                                 print $r')
+fi
 ])# DPKG_PROG_PERL
 
 # DPKG_PROG_PO4A

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