Description of problem:
The Version of the MakeMaker shiped with the perl Package generates
Makefile
which are unusaable for packagers.
The Makefiles generated with Version 6.03 of MakeMaker contain the
allready
full epanded path, so the install Directories cannot be overwritten
eg. with PREFIX=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_prefix}

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.8.0-88.4

How reproducible:
h2xs -X -n Test
cd Test
perl Makefile.PL

(see the generated Makefile)

This will install the Module not in /usr/lib/perl5 and not in
the specified PREFIX:

make && make PREFIX="/tmp/test" install

Resolution:

Please see:
http://www.internetteam.de/benning/redhat/perl/

There i put up a patch(perl-5.8.0-makemaker-update-6.21.patch) which
updates the
MakeMaker tree within the perl distribtion to the current version 6.21.
There's also a diff of my SPEC file agains the 88.4 spec(perl.spec.diff).

I also uploaded the following two Makefile which show the problem:
Makefile.MakeMaker-6.03 (bad)
Makefile.MakeMaker-6.21 (good)

The Authors of the MakeMaker Module fixed this problem around
Version 6.06.
This also applies to the perl Package which is shipped with RH9.