AH!!! the auto directory looked like this:

drwxr-xr-x  12 root     root         512 Oct  9 18:05 .
drwxr-xr-x  12 root     root         512 Oct  9 18:03 ..
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         512 Oct  4 11:15 DBD
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         512 Sep  1 11:41 DBI
drwx------   3 root     root         512 Oct  4 10:43 Data
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         512 Oct  9 17:46 Digest
drwx------   4 root     root         512 Oct  9 18:03 HTML
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         512 Oct  9 17:42 MIME
drwx------   2 root     root         512 Oct  4 11:15 Msql-Mysql-modul
+es
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         512 Oct  9 18:10 Net
drwx------   2 root     root         512 Oct  9 17:49 URI
drwx------   2 root     root         512 Oct  9 18:05 libwww-perl
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parent "Obviously not..."

It is probably not worth asking why the make installer would cause that, is it?

Thanks.