well, i tried using the search interface; and it did actually work for a few modules, but it seems that djgpp's socket.h implementation just hates me (:
perl's IO package, especially IO::Socket, just refuses to compile (because of some weird problem with the case of pathnames, it wants IO/Socket, and see's io/Socket, and under no circumstances will it let me rename the directory, due to silly vfat filesys oddities.)

in any case, i've just resigned to use activeperl, and use freebsd whenever i want to do something cool. (:


thanks anyways, guys!