NOTE: if you get an error like this (the Makefile line number may vary): Makefile:91: *** missing separator then set the environment variable LC_ALL to "C" and retry from scratch (re-run perl "Makefile.PL"). -(And consider upgrading your Perl.) +(And consider upgrading your Perl to, say, at least Perl 5.8.8.) (You got this message because you seem to have an UTF-8 locale active in your shell environment, this used - to cause broken Makefiles to be created from Makefile.PLs.)