newbie problem with Geo::IP installation through cpan

Dear list,

Hello to all of you. I am a newbie in cpan and come here to discuss with
Geo::IP installation problem through cpan. For awstats Geo-location
report I need Geo::IP in my system. This is a opensuse 11.1 ( x86_64)
box with perl v5.10.0 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi. I have
already downloaded the required the MaxMind GeoIP C API from
http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/GeoIP-1.4.6.tar.gz and
and install it by

````````````````
./configure
make
make check ( all test are passed)
make install
`````````````````````

During "make install" I can see that

``````````
Libraries have been installed in:
/usr/local/lib
`````````````

and to confirm

````````````````````````````````````
# ls /usr/local/lib

libGeoIP.a libGeoIP.so libGeoIPUpdate.a libGeoIPUpdate.so
libGeoIPUpdate.so.0.0.0
libGeoIP.la libGeoIP.so.1 libGeoIP.so.1.4.6 libGeoIPUpdate.la
libGeoIPUpdate.so.0

````````````````````````


/etc/ld.so.conf has also the above path included.

[.........]
/usr/x86_64-suse-linux/lib
/usr/local/lib
/opt/kde3/lib
/lib64
[.............]

Now if I try to install Geo::IP through cpan it reports error as

[...............]

The GeoIP CAPI is not installed you should do that. Otherwise try

perl Makefile.PL PP=1

to install this module anyway. It uses a slower pure perl version
and you can rebuid it later.

GeoIP must be installed prior to building Geo::IP and I can't find
it in the standard library directories. You can download GeoIP C API from:

http://www.maxmind.com/app/c

If GeoIP is installed, but in a non-standard directory, then use the
following options to Makefile.PL:

perl Makefile.PL LIBS='-L/home/me/lib' INC='-I/home/me/include'

Note that if you build against a shareable library in a non-standard
location
you may (on some platforms) also have to set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH
environment
variable at run time for perl to find the library.

If you installed the GeoIP C libraries to the /usr/local/lib directory,
then you may need to add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf then run
/sbin/ldconfig /etc/ld.so.conf

[..................]

I am really confused why it is missing the GeoIP C API . I have even
done " /sbin/ldconfig /etc/ld.so.conf " and tried to intall the module
again but
no luck at all :-( could any one kindly provide me a clue ?

with regards,

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