Hallo Monks, I posted the following question in a linux forum and a great friend advised me to seek wisdom here. Now my concern is that i have a perl script that requires the NetAddr module. Am running fedora 7 But upon typing the Makefile command, all i get is a really huge list of errors... For brevity's sake let me just post a snippet of the errors: 
Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile line 31, near "/usr
+/lib"
        (Missing operator before lib?)
Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile line 36, near "LDFL
+AGS =  -L/usr"
  (Might be a runaway multi-line // string starting on line 35)
        (Do you need to predeclare LDFLAGS?)
Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile line 37, near "LIBC
+ = /lib"
  (Might be a runaway multi-line // string starting on line 36)
        (Do you need to predeclare LIBC?)
Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile line 41, near "25.e
+lsmp"
        (Missing operator before elsmp?)
Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile line 43, near "/usr
+/lib"
        (Missing operator before lib?)
Semicolon seems to be missing at Makefile line 43.
Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile line 44, near "/usr
+/lib"
        (Missing operator before lib?)
Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile line 47, near "/usr
+/bin"
        (Missing operator before bin?)
Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile line 48, near "/usr
+/lib"
        (Missing operator before lib?)
Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile line 49, near "/usr
+/lib"
        (Missing operator before lib?)
Semicolon seems to be missing at Makefile line 52.
Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile line 64, near "INST
+_ARCHLIB = blib/arch"
  (Might be a runaway multi-line // string starting on line 54)
        (Do you need to predeclare INST_ARCHLIB?)
Semicolon seems to be missing at Makefile line 70.
Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile line 71, near "3pm"
        (Missing operator before pm?)
Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile line 76, near "SITE
+PREFIX = /usr"
  (Might be a runaway multi-line // string starting on line 75)
        (Do you need to predeclare SITEPREFIX?)
Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile line 78, near "INST
+ALLPRIVLIB = $(PERLPREFIX)/lib"
  (Might be a runaway multi-line // string starting on line 77)
        (Do you need to predeclare INSTALLPRIVLIB?)
Semicolon seems to be missing at Makefile line 78.
Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile line 79, near "$(DE
+STDIR"
        (Missing operator before DESTDIR?)
Scalar found where operator expected at Makefile line 79, near ")$("
        (Missing operator before $(?)
Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile line 79, near "$(IN
+STALLPRIVLIB"
        (Missing operator before INSTALLPRIVLIB?)
Semicolon seems to be missing at Makefile line 79.
Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile line 80, near "$(SI
+TEPREFIX"
        (Missing operator before SITEPREFIX?)
Semicolon seems to be missing at Makefile line 80.
Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile line 81, near "$(DE
+STDIR"
        (Missing operator before DESTDIR?)
Scalar found where operator expected at Makefile line 81, near ")$("

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