For most modules, I can take the post-build source tree that's been installed on one computer, copy the tree to another computer (with an identical OS, etc.), run "make install" and it just works even though the second computer doesn't have the compiler that I used to build the module originally.

Sometimes when I move the source tree, the "make install" on the new computer wants to re-run some compilation steps, which fail due to lack of compiler.

Is there a general strategy for dealing with these problems?

Are the "make install" dependencies not (in some sense) correctly configured?

If I drag myself through the output of "make -n install", and just copy the files to where they're supposed to go manually, what problems will I be likely to encounter?

BTW, the module I'm currently wrestling with is Time::HiRes on HP-UX 11.00.

In reply to install module without the compiler by andyford

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