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Asked: 2026-06-04T06:58:52+00:00

I followed the instructions in this tutorial to build a custom version of Perl.

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I followed the instructions in this tutorial to build a custom version of Perl.

I originally did step 8 as follows: 

./Configure -d -Dprefix=/custom/perl

After I did that, I did make, make test, and make install.

Then I decided that I want Perl in /opt/perl instead, so I did make clean and repeated the process and did step 8 with the appropriate directory. Still installed into /custom. Then I deleted custom completely and re-installed with the appropriate directory in the ./Configure step. Still installed into /custom.

What am I missing? I want Perl in /opt not /custom.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have the right usage for 5.16, as per its INSTALL file: “You can also specify any prefix location by adding “-Dprefix='/some/dir'” to Configure‘s args.”

    So I suspect that make clean does not remove the files created by Configure. Try it from a fresh directory instead of a “cleaned” directory. Or at least try deleting config.sh and Policy.sh.

    [Upd: It was pointed out that make distclean can be used to do this. Of course, so can git clean -dfx if you’re installing from the repo instead of from the tarball. ]

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