aha, more LWP install problems

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Hi,

I'm still trying to install LWP.  This time I got a little further, but not
much further.

I upgraded to perl 5.002, got the 5b9 of libwww-perl and put it in site_perl
dir off of the perl's library dir.

first when I did: perl Makefile.PL I got a complaint about Net::FTP being in
@INC - I looked in Net dir and really no FTP.pm just Ping.pm.
So, my first question -- is FTP.pm something I need to get separately ?

Ok, so then I run make, and got a warning:

bets# make
umask 0 && cp lib/File/CounterFile.pm ./blib/lib/File/CounterFile.pm
Warning: AutoSplit had to create top-level ./blib/lib/auto unexpectedly.

I assume that is because I did not have that ./blib directory, so it had to be
created first, which is what happened here, right ?
so as make was running I got to the point where the following problems started
happening:

umask 0 && cp lib/URI/URL/whois.pm ./blib/lib/URI/URL/whois.pm
umask 0 && cp lib/WWW/RobotRules.pm ./blib/lib/WWW/RobotRules.pm
/usr/bin/perl -I./blib/arch -I./blib/lib -I/usr1/local/lib/perl5/i386-bsdos/5.0L
/usr/bin/perl -I./blib/arch -I./blib/lib -I/usr1/local/lib/perl5/i386-bsdos/5.0L
Manifying ./blib/man3/File::CounterFile.3
cannot create ./blib/man3/File::CounterFile.3: directory nonexistent
Couldn't install ./blib/man3/File::CounterFile.3
chmod 644 ./blib/man3/File::CounterFile.3: No such file or directory
..
and so on...

I looked in ./blib/man3 dir and really there was nothing there, except some
file ".exists" with the size of 0 bytes. weird...
same thing with ./blib/man/man1 directory.

And why wasn't there anything there ?  It should have been ?  At what point
would that get created and why wasn't it ?
I don't get this, and README file says absolutely nothing about it :( (I guess
it's not a common problem ?)

after that I run 'make test' and all tests were OK.
I run 'make install' just now and it didn't complain about anything, and I see
it even "Manified" all the .pm's that come with LWP.

I guess it did work after all, ha ?

But why did I get those weird complains the first time ?  Maybe that
could/should be changed so it doesn't confuse stupid people like me ?

Thanks

Otis
P.S.
does anyone know what happened to libwww-perl mailing archives that were put
on the WWW through Hypermail ?
They were there yesterday and now they are gone.  Also, since I subscribed to
libwww-perl mailing list I haven't heard anything from majordomo (normally I
would get a file telling me about the mailing list, how to (us)subscribe, etc.)

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