look! my 100th post, anyway....

So I've *finally* switched over to linux and I'm here to stay! With that I'm loosing my old friend, PPM. I must say, so far CPAN.pm is *almost* as simple as PPM. For some reason when I configured the CPAN.pm module it didn't find make and now when I install modules that require make I get errors like such: 

GD.c: In function `XS_GD__Font_offset':
GD.c:3138: parse error before "font"
GD.c:3144: `font' undeclared (first use in this function)
GD.c:3144: called object is not a function
GD.c: In function `XS_GD__Font_width':
GD.c:3165: parse error before "font"
GD.c:3171: `font' undeclared (first use in this function)
GD.c:3171: called object is not a function
GD.c: In function `XS_GD__Font_height':
GD.c:3192: parse error before "font"
GD.c:3198: `font' undeclared (first use in this function)
GD.c:3198: called object is not a function
make: *** [GD.o] Error 1
  /usr/bin/make  -- NOT OK

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I've got no clue as to what those other errors are, but the last one about make is the one I'm concerned with. make *is* located at /usr/bin/make so why is CPAN.pm dying on me? I tried the config as both a normal user and as root and got similar results.

system:
linux RH9
v 5.8


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