This will undoubtedly seem like a problem that should be easily resolved but...

We are having some 'issues' getting multiple versions of Perl installed on our HP-UX servers (11.11 & 11.23). Now, I'm not a Sys Admin but I believe the reason behind this is that the Perl installation which comes from the HP Porting center does not let you choose the installation directory, it always installs to /usr/local overwriting any current installation.

I've already suggested building Perl from source, or using an alternative binary HP build (not supplied by HP), but they are reluctant to do either as they want a kosher HP version (no, I don't know why either!). So here's my questions:

1. Is there any way to force the HP binary build to install to another directory?
2. I know you can't simply move a Perl installation to another directory, but is there any easy way to move and then reconfigure?

If the answer to both the above is no, that's fine, I really just want someone to confirm either way...

Any help much appreciated.
Macer.

To relocate a perl installation...

1) Move perl executables (perl, perldoc, etc) and it's libraries to, e.g., /new/directory/bin and /new/directory/lib

2) write a wrapper which sets PERL5LIB to, e.g.,
"/new/directory/lib/5.8.4:/new/directory/lib/site_perl" (+ any custom lib directories).
for earlier versions, you may have to add additional directories, but this version
will find all necessary default directories with just the above two directories.
Have the wrapper execute the real perl executable with all of the original arguments:
unshift @ARGV, $^X;
exec { $ARGV[0] } @ARGV;

3) adjust the "#!" line in all of the other executables (e.g. perldoc) to point to the
correct perl executable.

4) In the Config.pm module, change the scriptdirexp directory to point to the new
executable directory /new/directory/bin (otherwise things like perldoc will not work).

Good Luck!

Thanks Runrig... I'll give this a try (although it probably won't be this week!) and let you know how I get on. Much appreciated.