Hi Daniel, thank you VERY much for your help !
Why did you install Pod::Man in /usr/local?
because I use the CPAN shell to install Perl modules beside MacPorts
cpan shell with macports perl defaults to installing into a directory in /opt/local
Yes, but I configured CPANplus to install not in /opt because I wanted to keep my custom Perl installs separated . . .
Because PERL5LIB isn't set when macports runs (because macports sanitizes the environment variables before running)
You can get macports to keep PERL5LIB by adding it to extra_env in / opt/local/etc/ports/ports.conf
Next time I run into trouble with MacPorts Perl I will try that - thank you for this info . . . in the meantime I solved my problem w/ wget by installing the missing .pm manually into /opt/local ( I was too impatient ;-) ) Thanks again Peter