On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 02:34:53AM -0700, Jean-Christophe Manciot wrote: First off, don't use 'make install' except when building a distro package, as you'll end up with multiple versions of libguestfs installed and that causes pain. In Fedora, we do 'make install DESTDIR=...' in a buildroot, and then remove the 'perllocal.pod' file before building the final distro package. See: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libguestfs.git/tree/libguestfs.spec?id... So if you're building a distro package, then you probably want to do something similar to this and the problem doesn't arise. When we install the Perl files, all we do is run Perl's ExtUtils::MakeMaker. See: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/perl/Makefile.am https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/perl/Makefile.PL.in So if there is a proper solution to this, it must lie with ExtUtils. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html