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cpanm (App::cpanminus) 1.7043 on perl 5.018002 built for darwin-thread
+-multi-2level
Work directory is /Users/my_name/.cpanm/work/1501257286.35074
You have make /usr/bin/make
You have LWP 6.05
You have /usr/bin/tar: bsdtar 2.8.3 - libarchive 2.8.3
You have /usr/bin/unzip
Searching ExtUtils::PkgConfig () on cpanmetadb ...
--> Working on ExtUtils::PkgConfig
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/X/XA/XAOC/ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1
+.16.tar.gz
-> OK
Unpacking ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1.16.tar.gz
Entering ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1.16
Checking configure dependencies from META.json
Checking if you have ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.58 ... Yes (7.30)
Configuring ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1.16
Running Makefile.PL
***
*** ExtUtils::PkgConfig requires the pkg-config utility, but it doesn'
+t
*** seem to be in your PATH.  Is it correctly installed?
***  PATH=/Users/my_name/perl5/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/s
+bin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin
***
-> N/A
-> FAIL Configure failed for ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1.16. See /Users/my_na
+me/.cpanm/work/1501257286.35074/build.log for details.

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Re^9: cpan error - module installation
by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 28, 2017 at 16:34 UTC

    The reason for failure is clear:

    ExtUtils::PkgConfig requires the pkg-config utility, but it doesn't se
+em to be in your PATH.  Is it correctly installed?

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    ExtUtils::PkgConfig is an interface to a program called pkg-config, which doesn't seem to be available on your system, or isn't in anywhere in your PATH environment variable. Either add the installed location to your PATH variable, or install the software if you don't already have it. See brew.sh, then from the command line:

    brew install pkg-config

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      Okay,  bre install pkg-config worked.

      Then the installation of ExtUtils::PkgConfig also worked, so I tried to finally install the package that I actually want, namely "GD". By typing in  cpanm GD I got the message configuring GD-2.66 ... N/A

      configure failed

      log file: 

      cpanm (App::cpanminus) 1.7043 on perl 5.018002 built for darwin-thread
+-multi-2level
Work directory is /Users/my_name/.cpanm/work/1501260780.37428
You have make /usr/bin/make
You have LWP 6.05
You have /usr/bin/tar: bsdtar 2.8.3 - libarchive 2.8.3
You have /usr/bin/unzip
Searching GD () on cpanmetadb ...
--> Working on GD
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RU/RURBAN/GD-2.66.tar.gz
-> OK
Unpacking GD-2.66.tar.gz
Entering GD-2.66
Checking configure dependencies from META.json
Checking if you have ExtUtils::PkgConfig 0 ... Yes (1.16)
Checking if you have ExtUtils::Constant 0.22 ... Yes (0.23)
Configuring GD-2.66
Running Makefile.PL
Notice: Type perl Makefile.PL -h for command-line option summary.

Package gdlib was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gdlib.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gdlib' found
 at Makefile.PL line 441.
*** can not find package gdlib
*** check that it is properly installed and available in PKG_CONFIG_PA
+TH
 at Makefile.PL line 441.
-> N/A
-> FAIL Configure failed for GD-2.66. See /Users/my_name/.cpanm/work/1
+501260780.37428/build.log for details.

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        Package gdlib was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gdlib.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gdlib' found

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        Same as last time, satisfy the modules dependencies. When installing modules read the documentation. The GD README tells you what is required.

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