The easy approach is to run Makefile.PL yourself:

cpan
cpan> look XML::LibXML
/path/to/build/dir/for/XML-LibXML-123.456> perl Makefile.PL INC=... LI
+BS=...
/path/to/build/dir/for/XML-LibXML-123.456> make
/path/to/build/dir/for/XML-LibXML-123.456> make test

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Hopefully you see more output of which library the Makefile.PL run is missing. If the Makefile.PL is not verbose enough, consider adding print statements to it to see what it does and which libraries it tests for.

In reply to Re: cpan install error for XML::LibXML::Node by Corion
in thread cpan install error for XML::LibXML::Node by BradV

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