[Catalyst] Makefile.PL seems to be ignoring INSTALL_BASE

[Robert Rothenberg]

So we are trying to set up Catalyst on a freshly minted CentOS 6 machine.

On this machine, we've decided to build Perl 5.12.3 to use with web
applications and install in /opt/perl rather than use the vendor's Perl.

Moose, DBIx::Class, Catalyst and several other modules were installed in
/opt/perl/lib using cpanminus (/opt/perl/bin/cpanm).

We want to install the application in /opt/appname.

But when we run

  /opt/perl/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=/opt/appname

Module::Install wants to install the dependencies in /opt/perl instead of
/opt/appname.

The most recent ExtUtils::MakeMaker and related modules are installed.

We've been able to work around this by building the distribution and using
cpanminus to install it.

But this seems like a hack.

Is there a better way to tell the installer to install additional modules in
the base?

Thanks,
Rob