It looks like a bug was introduced in slimserver's 
Bin/build-perl-modules.pl script in revision 8759. The script stores the 
text "lwp", or the full path of curl or wget (from File::Which) in 
$downloadUsing. The script later compares $downloadUsing to 'curl', which 
will almost never match since $downloadUsing contains the full path of curl 
or wget, not just 'curl' or 'wget'.

Below is a quick change I used with success on my system, but there are 
probably more robust solutions.

The change that introduced the problem can be seen here:

<http://svn.slimdevices.com/trunk/server/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl?rev=8759&r1=8712&r2=8759><
/a>

-Michael


--- Bin/build-perl-modules.pl.orig	2006-10-04 21:29:15.000000000 -0700
+++ Bin/build-perl-modules.pl	2006-10-04 18:00:41.000000000 -0700
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@

			LWP::Simple::getstore("$SOURCE/$package?view=auto", 
$package);

-		} elsif ($downloadUsing eq 'curl') {
+		} elsif ($downloadUsing =~ /curl$/) {

			`$downloadUsing --silent -o $package 
$SOURCE/$package?view=auto`;