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Asked: 2026-05-15T07:21:35+00:00

I am trying to install some Perl modules into a non-standard location, let’s call

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I am trying to install some Perl modules into a non-standard location, let’s call it /non/standard/location. I used 

perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/non/standard/location
make;make install

to install them.

In the script which uses the module, it seems to be necessary to specify a long directory path including the version of Perl, like so:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use lib '/non/standard/location/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/';
use A::B;

Is there any use lib or other statement which I can use which is not so long and verbose, and which does not include the actual version of Perl, in order that I don’t have to go back and edit this out of the program if the version of Perl is upgraded?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Currently I have installed via the following prescription, which seems to fix things.

    perl Makefile.PL --no-manpages --skipdeps PREFIX=/non/system/location INSTALLSITELIB=/non/system/location/lib INSTALLSITEBIN=/non/system/location/bin INSTALLMAN1DIR=/non/system/location/man/man1 INSTALLMAN3DIR=/non/system/location/man/man3

    I welcome any constructive criticism of this. I want to use --no-manpages but the INSTALLMAN1DIR seems to be necessary anyway.

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