Net FTPServer

YGP has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I tried to Install Net::FtpServer, I am getting this once I do ' make install'.
"install: The -c, -f, -n options each require a directory following!"
It is able to create the directory /etc but install commad fails

The following command caused the error:
if [ ! "" ]; then \
          mkdir -p /Perl_Modules/new/etc; \
          if [ ! -f /Perl_Modules/new/etc/ftpd.conf ]; then \
            install -c -m 0644 ftpd.conf /Perl_Modules/new/etc/ftpd.co
+nf; \
          else \
            install -c -m 0644 ftpd.conf /Perl_Modules/new/etc/ftpd.co
+nf.new; \
            echo "Old configuration file /Perl_Modules/new/etc/ftpd.co
+nf not overwritten."; \
            echo "New configuration file installed as /Perl_Modules/ne
+w/etc/ftpd.conf.new"; \
          fi; \
        fi
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install'
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Re: Net FTPServer by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 11, 2008 at 07:19 UTC
My guess is that the `install` command of your unix is incompatible with the assumptions of the module author. As the `Makefile.PL` is full of hand-rolled code, it seems that the author is not fond of ExtUtils::MakeMaker and the mechanisms it provides for installing files. A possible way out could be to avoid the configuration overall and do the copying manually, as hinted in the INSTALL file: `You can override where the configuration file will go by specifying the SYSCONFDIR setting. /etc is the default. Or to avoid installing a configuration altogether use "make NOCONF=1 install" instead.` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Net FTPServer by pc88mxer (Vicar) on Mar 11, 2008 at 16:00 UTC
I found this by googling the error message: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-ports/1998-06/msg00005.php. Basically, the author's `install` works differently. The fix in the above case was to change Makefile definitions which look like: `INSTLOPTS= -c -m 444 INSTL_EXE_OPTS= -c -m 555 INSTL_LIB_OPTS= -c -m 644` [download] to: `INSTLOPTS= -m 444 -c INSTL_EXE_OPTS= -m 555 -c INSTL_LIB_OPTS= -m 644 -c` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Net FTPServer by YGP (Acolyte) on Mar 14, 2008 at 12:27 UTC
Hi, thansk for the reply, I did a work around here, tried to install it without installing config file, later I copied the ftpd.conf file to the location where it should be ( /etc) and started the server, It worked............Thanks a lot for your help.	[reply]