Re^4: A Guide to Installing Modules

[Aristotle]

I looked into it some further using the following:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use ExtUtils::Installed;
my $inst = ExtUtils::Installed->new();
print map "$_\n", @ARGV
        ? map $inst->files($_), @ARGV
        : $inst->modules();
__END__

I got the same pathless reply for any module I checked - bar Perl itself. All additional modules were installed using CPAN. In reply to your requests:

$ perl -MExtUtils::Installed -le'print $ExtUtils::Installed::VERSION, 
+" ", $ExtUtils::Packlist::VERSION, $/'
0.02 0.03

$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuratio
+n:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.2, archname=i386-linux
    uname='linux grommet 2.4.2 #1 smp sun feb 25 16:33:33 pst 2001 i68
+6 unknown '
    config_args='-de -Dprefix=/usr -Darchname=i386-linux -Dprivlib=/us
+r/lib/perl5 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux -Dsitelib=/usr/lib/pe
+rl5/site_perl -Dsitearch=/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/i386-linux'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultipl
+icity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LA
+RGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.3 20010315 (release)', gccosandvers
+=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1
+2
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
+ lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    libc=/lib/libc-2.2.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.
+a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynami
+c'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Apr 11 2001 22:57:30
  @INC:
    /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

Makeshifts last the longest.