I suspect this is closely related to a discussion re. "INSTALLPRIVLIB should be /usr/lib/perl5" in debian-perl about a month ago, but I don't know enough about perl's 'normal' configuration methods and particularly debian's packaged distribution to say...
I want to install various perl modules local to my home account, the standard perl MakeMaker ordinarily allows the following ~/local/src$ perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/local/ But this does not work under Debian 2.1, It seems that no matter what I set PREFIX to, Install.pm wants to put it in /usr/local/lib/site_perl. I've never come across this behaviour from perl before, I presume this is some Debian thing? (I've been a debian user for 2.5 days :-) Also, even if I concede and (as root) install my modules in /usr/local/lib/site_perl (using perl Makefile.PL & make install), the man pages go to /usr/man/man3 rather than /usr/local/man/man3... Ben
