Re: Re: CPAN.pm and make (trees)

Tye, thanks for the explination, I tried to install CPANPLUS and I guess that module has problems too.

~sigh~ Is there an easy way to manage modules on linux?

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Writing Makefile for CPANPLUS
Now, please type 'ile  test' to test, and 'ile  install' to install.
Makefile:88: *** missing separator.  Stop.
  /usr/bin/make  -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
[root@localhost silent11]#
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-silent11

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Re^3: CPAN.pm and make (gah!) by tye (Sage) on Apr 17, 2003 at 17:23 UTC
Gah! Browsing CPANPLUS's Makefile.PL (if you are using IE, then you'll have to download that file in order to view it despite the "Content-Type: text/plain", sigh), I can see why problems getting the thing installed might be more common than for some modules. 14kB of script just to build the Makefile? Well, I almost never use CPAN, CPANPLUS, PPM, nor the others. I download modules and do the rather simple "perl Makefile.PL; make test; make install". Actually, I do use PPM from time-to-time, but I almost always download the .ppm file myself and run "ppm .ppm" (in part because PPM will almost never find/download anything for me). I don't see much advantage to avoiding these rather simple steps, especially when I've had and seen so many problems trying to get these short-cuts to work or even seen them blow things away (by downloading and installing new versions of Perl, for example). shrug - tye	[reply]
Re^3: CPAN.pm and make (trees) by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Apr 15, 2003 at 19:35 UTC
FWIW, I've never had any problem using CPAN.pm on any Unix box. ~~I don't think you will either, if you install a Perl other than the ActiveState distro.~~ (Don't know how I got the impression you were.) Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]