installing libwww-perl-5b6 on Digital UNIX V3.2C with Perl 5.001m

Bob Fleischer, (fleischer@lgp30.tay1.dec.com)
Tue, 28 May 1996 11:53:01 -0400 

        I'm trying to install libwww-perl-5b6 on Digital UNIX V3.2C,
        using Perl 5.001m, (for various reasons we won't consider
        upgrading to Perl 5.002 at this time) but I am having no luck
        getting libwww-perl-5b6 to install and test properly. (For
        what it's worth, we have been running libwww-perl-0.40
        successfully -- we just wanted a newer libwww-perl.)

        The output of the install process is this:

>  perl Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for libwww-perl
> make
`Makefile' is up to date.
> make test
/usr/bin/perl -I./blib t/TEST 0
base/afm............Can't locate Font/AFM.pm in @INC at base/afm.t line 3.
FAILED on test 1
base/base64.........Can't locate MIME/Base64.pm in @INC at base/base64.t line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at base/base64.t line 1.
FAILED on test 0
base/date...........Can't locate HTTP/Date.pm in @INC at base/date.t line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at base/date.t line 1.
FAILED on test 0
base/entities.......Can't locate HTML/Entities.pm in @INC at base/entities.t line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at base/entities.t line 1.
FAILED on test 0
base/headers........Can't locate HTTP/Headers.pm in @INC at base/headers.t line 1.
FAILED on test 0
base/html-parse.....Can't locate HTML/Parse.pm in @INC at base/html-parse.t line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at base/html-parse.t line 3.
FAILED on test 0
base/mailcap........Can't locate Mail/Cap.pm in @INC at base/mailcap.t line 3.
FAILED on test 0
base/mediatypes.....Can't locate LWP/MediaTypes.pm in @INC at base/mediatypes.t line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at base/mediatypes.t line 1.
FAILED on test 0
base/message........Can't locate HTTP/Request.pm in @INC at base/message.t line 1.
FAILED on test 0
base/quoted-print...Can't locate MIME/QuotedPrint.pm in @INC at base/quoted-print.t line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at base/quoted-print.t line 3.
FAILED on test 0
base/robot-rules....Can't locate WWW/RobotRules.pm in @INC at base/robot-rules.t line 14.
FAILED on test 0
base/status.........Can't locate HTTP/Status.pm in @INC at base/status.t line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at base/status.t line 1.
FAILED on test 0
base/uri............Can't locate URI/Escape.pm in @INC at base/uri.t line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at base/uri.t line 4.
FAILED on test 0
local/autoload......Can't locate LWP/UserAgent.pm in @INC at local/autoload.t line 7.
FAILED on test 1
local/get...........Can't locate LWP/Simple.pm in @INC at local/get.t line 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at local/get.t line 7.
FAILED on test 0
Failed 15/15 tests, 0.00% okay.
*** Exit 2
Stop.
> make install
: perl5.000 and MM pre 3.8 autosplit into INST_ARCHLIB, we delete these old
files here
rm -f /usr/local/lib/perl5/alpha-dec_osf/auto/libwww-perl/*.al
rm -f /usr/local/lib/perl5/alpha-dec_osf/auto/libwww-perl/*.ix
make INST_LIB=/usr/local/lib/perl5
INST_ARCHLIB=/usr/local/lib/perl5/alpha-dec_osf INST_EXE=/usr/local/bin
`Makefile' is up to date.
Can't open /usr/local/lib/perl5/alpha-dec_osf/auto/libwww-perl/.packlist: No such file or directory
Appending installation info to /usr/local/lib/perl5/alpha-dec_osf/perllocal.pod
>

        I know that I've seen the ".packlist: No such file or
        directory" problem before, but I don't know whether I managed
        a fix, a workaround, or just gave up!  Any suggestions
        regarding why this is failing?

        Thanks,
        Bob Fleischer
        Digital Equipment Corp.
        Littleton, MA USA
        fleischer@lgp30.enet.dec.com