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That's the long about way. (Score:1)
You can all that by just running Configure once, and no editing of files.
As explained in the INSTALL file, you can give an option to Configure to tell it where to install perl. -Dprefix=/home/perl-base/perl-5.8.8 will do.
I typically run Configure something like this:
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