build a perl to put in your home

Sometimes I want to have my custom perl. Mostly because I need a different version, or because I need some modules I cannot get installed on the system perl.

So installing perl to your home is easy. Just get the source and run something like:

perl Configure -Dprefix=${HOME}/linux/x86/

You might want to add "-de" to speed things up (answer all questions with default).

Then just run

make && make test && make install

Then add your new perl path to PATH.