Change PREFIX to INSTALL_BASE in perlfaq8 and perlmodinstall

[Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>]

A post on Stackoverflow [1] made me notice that perlfaq8 and perlmodinstall
were still recommending "perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/foo LIB=/foo/lib" rather
than "perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=/foo" which is predictable and also
installs modules into the same place as "perl Build.PL --install_base=/foo"

The attached patch purges all references to PREFIX from pod/.  The patch is
against perlmaint, I recommend its inclusion in 5.8.9 to promote simpler
module installs.


[1]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/251705/how-can-i-use-a-new-perl-module-without-install-permissions

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