OK, I could be off-base here but maybe if I post some code it might help ;-)

I’m trying to install a package called Verilog-Perl 2.214. The entire package is 300KB and can be downloaded at: http://search.cpan.org/author/WSNYDER/Verilog-Perl-2.214/

Perl is used to create a makefile. When I execute the perl script I get the following:

efw@localhost Verilog-Perl-2.214$ perl Makefile.PL
WARNING: CC is not a known parameter.
WARNING: CC is not a known parameter.
WARNING: LD is not a known parameter.
Writing Makefile for Verilog::Preproc::lib
Writing Makefile for Verilog::Preproc
Writing Makefile for Verilog::Language
efw@localhost Verilog-Perl-2.214$

I don’t know for certain that perl is issuing these warnings. That is what I was told by the author of the code.

Here is the listing of Makefile.PL:

# $Revision: #23 $$Date: 2002/08/08 $$Author: wsnyder $
# DESCRIPTION: Perl ExtUtils: Type 'perl Makefile.PL' to create a Make
+file for this package

use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
use Carp;

$DOLLAR = '$$';    # Quoted properly for make
sub MY::postamble {
"
README: readme.texi
    -rm \$@
    makeinfo \$< --output \$@ --no-headers --no-validate

clean::
    -rm -rf simv .vpm test_dir

dist: maintainer-copy distcheck README

## Maintainer use:
tag:
    p4 label -d     \$(DISTNAME)_\$(VERSION_SYM) || true
    p4 label        \$(DISTNAME)_\$(VERSION_SYM)
    p4 labelsync -l \$(DISTNAME)_\$(VERSION_SYM) ...
#    cvs tag -F \$(DISTNAME)_\$(VERSION_SYM) .

maintainer-dist: dist tag
    cp \$(DISTVNAME).tar.gz \$(HOME)/src/kits
    mv \$(DISTVNAME).tar.gz \$(HOME)/backpack

maintainer-copy:
#vpm maintainer-copy:
#    perl -pe '${DOLLAR}skip = 1 if /--MAKER--/; print ${DOLLAR}_ if !
+ ${DOLLAR}skip; ${DOLLAR}skip = 0 if /--ENDMAKER--/; ${DOLLAR}_=qq{};
+' < ../../vpm > vpm
#    chmod a+x vpm

maintainer-clean: distclean
    -rm README Makefile

";
}

local $! = undef;
`flex --version`; ($?==0) or die "\n%Error: 'flex' must be installed t
+o build\n";
`g++ --version`; ($?==0) or die "\n%Error: 'gcc/g++' must be installed
+ to build\n";

WriteMakefile(
          DISTNAME  => 'Verilog-Perl',
          NAME      => 'Verilog::Language',
          AUTHOR    => 'Wilson Snyder <wsnyder@wsnyder.org>',
          ABSTRACT  => 'Verilog language utilities and parsing',
          VERSION_FROM  => 'Language.pm',
          PMLIBDIRS => ['lib', 'Verilog', 'Netlist',],
          EXE_FILES => [qw( vrename vpm )],
          'clean'    => {FILES => qw (test_dir signals.vrename .vpm si
+mv ),},
          'dist'    => {COMPRESS => 'gzip -9f',
                SUFFIX   => '.gz', 
                DIST_DEFAULT => 'README all tardist',
            },
          );
[download]

Here is some system information:

efw@localhost efw$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.18-14 #1 Wed Sep 4 13:35:50 EDT 2002 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

efw@localhost efw$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/u
sr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --host=i
386-redhat-linux --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)

efw@localhost efw$ ld -v
GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.2 20020802

efw@localhost efw$ perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
Copyright 1987-2002, Larry Wall

efw@localhost efw$ make -v
GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. Built for i386-redhat-linux-gnu

Thanks!! efw