Nope... it's not a perms or directory issue or anything. It's something I'm doing wrong with the pp app. Try it yourself, it's kinda neat.

perl -MCPAN -e 'install PAR' should be trivial.

pp -r -e 'print "hello world!\n"' should make an executable that's like a meg big ... but it prints hello world and you don't need to have perl installed to run it.

The problem comes in when I try to make an executable from an app that uses Curses::UI. I don't know why that's special, but it doesn't seem to work -- resulting in the tempfile issue above. I also compiled an app that uses a few modules like Crypt::Rot13 that DID work just fine.