Fedora 10 packaging help required

[Julian Field]

I've got a problem caused by Fedora 10.
They have changed the RPM build structure so that RPMs now build under 
~/rpmbuild instead of /usr/src/redhat. But that's not the problem.

The problem is that the site_perl directory is now under 
/usr/local/lib/perl5 and not /usr/lib/perl5. But if you specify a 
"PREFIX" in the call to Makefile.PL to generate the Makefile, like I 
always have done, then the perl-site-specific directories are set wrong, 
it leaves them under /usr/lib/perl5.

What I need to know is how I can build the perl module in a BUILDROOT 
directory (so just building it can't over-write any existing files), 
while getting all the site-specific stuff correct that has changed in 
Fedora 10.

I have read the man page for ExtUtils::MakeMaker and have tried all 
sorts of things, but it won't get it right with just a few options to 
"perl Makefile.PL".

Any Fedora 10 experts out there who know how to do this?

The only perl modules I have looked at on the Fedora 10 project site 
have hideously complicated spec files, and I'm not at all confident that 
a total rewrite of all my spec files is either (a) warranted, or (b) not 
going to break compatibility with previous OSs.

Jules

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