Seems to me like there should be an installsitescript variable. I agree that for user-built perl, it should be /usr/local/bin, not /usr/bin. The last hints file I edited had this fixed, or so was the intent. I think that was in a 5.7-dev version, though. Been a while. I believe that for a system-built perl, installBLAH should be /usr/blah and installsiteBLAH should be /usr/local/blah. I don't think you can have installbin be a different place than where perl itself lives without tweaking Config.pm after the fact, and I don't think that's what you're supposed to do here. I'm not an expert; never was a fan of perl's build setup. I thought that was the point of installsitebin, as opposed to installbin. -Fred