* Sherm Pendley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A finer-grained method, supported by Perl 5.8.x and newer, is to use > the "DESTDIR" option when installing. You need to download and build > the modules by hand, beginning with the normal recipe - "perl > Makefile.PL; make; make test".
There is no need to hand install modules. Using the CPAN module, the DESTDIR option can be set as a 'make_install_arg' argument in the CPAN configuration file, for example: $ grep DESTDIR ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm 'make_install_arg' => q[DESTDIR=/var/tmp], However! With modules being installed under /var/tmp/<PREFIX>, building prerequisite modules will be tricky, unless these modules are first installed onto the system, or @INC updated to include the custom install path.
