Hi fellow monks, Here's a problem that's been getting the best of me all morning. ExtUtils::MakeMaker seems to work just fine on my OS X laptop. I've been writing, testing, and installing there for months now.

I create a tarball with make dist and scp it over to the server so that my entire group can test the application. I untar it, and do perl Makefile.PL ; make ; make install. Everything appears to be going fine until the very last moment, when I realize that it's not actually installing any of my modules:

Writing /usr/local/apache/share/cgi-lib/policymaker/auto/PolicyMaker/.
+packlist
Appending installation info to /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux/p
+erllocal.pod
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... is all I get after the entering/leaving directories bit. I find this incredibly strange, since it's working without a hitch on my laptop.

For reference, here's the Makefile.PL:

[Freyja:~/CVSdev/policymaker] janet% more Makefile.PL
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
use ExtUtils::Manifest;
use ExtUtils::Install;

use Config::Tiny;

my $config_file = 'data/config.ini';

# parse the config file
my $conf = Config::Tiny->read($config_file); 
my $paths = $conf->{paths};
my %opts = (
    NAME  => 'PolicyMaker',
    VERSION   => "1.0",
    INSTALLSITELIB => $paths->{cgilib},
    realclean   => {FILES   => '$(INST_ARCHAUTODIR)/*.old *,v'} ,
    test    => {TESTS   => 't/*.t'},
    dist    => {COMPRESS => 'gzip', SUFFIX => '.gz'},
    #VERBINST => $conf->{_}->{verbose}
);

WriteMakefile( %opts );
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And here's what the directory looks like:

[Freyja:~/CVSdev/policymaker] janet% ls
CVS             MANIFEST.SKIP   Makefile.old    data      MANIFEST    
+    Makefile.PL     README          lib
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I know that MakeMaker needs a Makefile.PL at every level (yes?), so here's what lib looks like:

[Freyja:~/CVSdev/policymaker] janet% ls lib
CVS                                     PolMaker-Rate-DiscountType
Makefile.PL                             PolMaker-Rate-Legal
PolMaker-AffUnderwriter                 PolMaker-Rate-MaxValsCoverage
PolMaker-Affiliate                      PolMaker-Rate-Medical
PolMaker-AutoPolicy                     PolMaker-Rate-Surcharge
PolMaker-AutoQuote                      PolMaker-Rate-SurchargeType
PolMaker-DBI                            PolMaker-Rate-Travel
PolMaker-Insured                        PolMaker-Rate-TravelMexpro
PolMaker-ItemValue                      PolMaker-Territory
PolMaker-MMUnderwriter                  PolMaker-Towed
PolMaker-Make                           PolMaker-TowedType
PolMaker-Model                          PolMaker-Underwriter
PolMaker-PolicyTowed                    PolMaker-User
PolMaker-PowerUnit                      PolMaker-Util
PolMaker-Quote                          PolMaker-VehicleCoverageType
PolMaker-Rate                           PolMaker-VehicleType
PolMaker-Rate-AutoLiability             config.pl
PolMaker-Rate-AutoPremium               handler.pl
PolMaker-Rate-Discount
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Each of those directories contains the requisite module, a Makefile.PL, and various other things (I generated 'em all with h2xs.) Note that nothing from this directory actually gets installed. Here's lib/Makefile.PL:

[Freyja:~/CVSdev/policymaker] janet% cat lib/Makefile.PL 
use strict;
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
WriteMakefile( NAME => "Modules");
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That's it. And it's working like a charm on my laptop. Both the server and the laptop are using perl 5.8.0. The server is running the latest version of RedHat Linux.

I don't think it's a permissions issue; I've double- and triple-checked that, and I've tried installing the modules as root. Is there anything at all I could be missing?

Thanks for any pointers you can give.