I've overcome part of the problem on my own, but there's still some things that make me uneasy.

I figured out that the invalid pathname involved my system not having the dirs it exepected for man pages. I updated my Makefile.PL file to look like this:

use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
# See lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm for details of how to influence
# the contents of the Makefile that is written.
WriteMakefile(
    NAME         => 'Lib::Simple',
    VERSION_FROM => 'lib/Lib/Simple.pm', # finds $VERSION
    AUTHOR       => 'Doug Gorley (douggorley@shaw.ca)',
    ABSTRACT     => 'A module for managing simple libraries.',
    INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR => 'none',
    INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR => 'none'
);
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Once this was done, I could install the module correctly. However, a few things are bugging me:

• The warnings from the Makefile still appear.
• make install produces the following:

  Makefile:461: warning: overriding commands for target `Lib-Simple-VERS
  +ION_SYM'
  Makefile:453: warning: ignoring old commands for target `Lib-Simple-VE
  +RSION_SYM'
  Makefile:461: warning: overriding commands for target `='
  Makefile:453: warning: ignoring old commands for target `='
  Installing blib/man1/blib/man1/vicq
  Installing blib/man1/blib/man1/aim
  Installing blib/man1/blib/man1/perl5.8.0
  Installing blib/man1/blib/man1/perl
  Installing blib/man1/blib/man1/a2p
  Installing blib/man1/blib/man1/xsubpp
  Installing blib/man1/blib/man1/pod2html
  Installing blib/man1/blib/man1/pod2latex
  Installing blib/man1/blib/man1/pod2man
  Installing blib/man1/blib/man1/pod2text
  Installing blib/man1/blib/man1/pod2usage
  Installing blib/man1/blib/man1/podchecker
  Installing blib/man1/blib/man1/podselect
  Installing blib/man1/blib/man1/c2ph
  Installing blib/man1/blib/man1/dprofpp
  Installing blib/man1/blib/man1/enc2xs
  Installing blib/man1/blib/man1/h2ph
  .
  .
  .
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  and on and on and on, refering to a ton of stuff under blib/ that has nothing at all to do with my module. Why is this?

Additional Note (2002-09-09): I'm using Perl 5.8.0 on Red Hat Linux 7.3, with ExtUtils::ModuleMaker 0.204 and ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.05.

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DamnDirtyApe

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