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13.8 Trivial make install

Since you know
the module can at least compile, let's be daring and
install it. Of course, you're installing it only
into the path specified by the PREFIX in the
earlier step, but that's enough to show how it would
have worked for the ultimate user's
installation.[14]

[14] If you're playing
along at home, be sure not to install this
pretend module anywhere but a temporary, testing, directory. Although
removing an installed module is generally difficult,
you'll be able to simply delete the testing
directory, along with its contents.

The
installation is triggered with make
install:

$ make install
Manifying blib/man3/Island::Plotting::Maps.3
Installing /home/ginger/Testing/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/Island/Plotting/Maps.pm
Installing /home/ginger/Testing/man/man3/Island::Plotting::Maps.3
Writing /home/ginger/Testing/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/darwin/auto/Island/Plotting/Maps/.
packlist
Appending installation info to /home/ginger/Testing/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/darwin/
perllocal.pod

Note that you're installing the module below the
$PREFIX/lib/site_lib directory (presuming a
PREFIX of /home/ginger/Testing
from earlier) and a manpage below $PREFIX/man (on
Unix machines, in the Section 3 area for subroutines, for example).
The manpage comes automatically when you extract the
module's POD data and convert it to troff
-man code, making it compatible with the Unix
man command.[15]

[15] On a non-Unix system,
or even a few odd Unix systems, you'll see different
behavior, but roughly the same overall result.