in reply to MakeMaker custom directory
phiharbour, see Motivation behind PERL5LIB and PERLLIB?
You may find that you get better results with PERL5LIB than with PERLLIB
In Re: Motivation behind PERL5LIB and PERLLIB? you will see salva says: "PERLLIB is obsolete, use PERL5LIB"
Also: Having seen your reply in cb, doing PERL5LIB=/my path/ isn't enough.
Although you can see it with echo $PERL5LIB you have to export it with export PERL5LIB to make it an environment variable.
IHTH
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