I'd love to help you with perlbrew, but I find it too complicated, for simple debug, try
perl -V or
perl -e " die $^X "
This works for me
- download, make, install, perl 5.8.1
wget -c http://cpan.org/src/perl-5.8.1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf perl-5.8.1.tar.gz
cd perl-5.8.1
./Configure -des -Dprefix=~/p/5.8.1/
make install
- use this perl by making it first in path
export PATH=~/p/5.8.1/perl/bin:$PATH
- verify path
which perl
perl -V
perl -e "die $^X"
- verify path from cpanp
$ cpanp
CPANPLUS::Shell::Default -- CPAN exploration and module installation (
+v0.9105)
CPAN Terminal> !warn $^X