Thanks for the information, graff, much appreciated.

It turns out that 'perldoc prove' doesn't return any documentation. Is it part of Test::Harness? I've got version 2.29 of Test::Harness, but I notice that the version on CPAN is 2.56.

I do have XML::LibXML and XML::LibXML::Common installed (1.58 and 0.13 respectively), so hopefully the dependencies are satisfied there.

I took your advice and descended into .cpan/build/XML-LibXSLT-1.58/ and ran 'make clean'. Here's the output: 

make: *** No rule to make target `clean'.  Stop.

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I also decided to run 'perl Makefile.PL'. Here's the output: 
running xslt-config... ok
looking for -lxslt... no
libxslt not found
Try setting LIBS and INC values on the command line
Or get libxslt and libxml2 from 
  http://www.libxml.org/
If you install via RPMs, make sure you also install the -devel
RPMs, as this is where the headers (.h files) are.

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I had to do something similar for LibXML, using a cpan config option called 'makepl_arg', but I tried using the same args and it didn't work (the error message said something like 'unknown argument').

I know where libxslt is installed (fink puts it in a non-standard place, apparently), so if I can figure out what arguments to pass Makefile.PL (and how), I think I can get this working.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

AH

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Using perl 5.8.1-RC3 unless otherwise noted.
Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin) unless otherwise noted.
Mac OS X 10.3.9 unless otherwise noted.

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in thread XML::LibXSLT on OS X install problem by alienhuman

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