Hi There,

I am trying to install some Perl modules from CPAN. Upon not being able to install anything (even running 'install Data::Dumper', something that's installed installed and working, throws errors), I found this line in the log for all modules I was trying to install:

Can't exec "make": No such file or directory at /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/CPAN.pm line 7698.

That kinda told me that the problem is in make. Either make is not installed or broken (can't say which). I also tried to remove .cpan folder in /Users/my_name/ area, but it didn't change anything. Then I checked if the path to Perl or cpan is set properly. I tried the:

'which perl' returned /usr/bin/perl

'which cpan' returned /usr/bin/cpan

perl -MConfig -e 'print $Config{perlpath}, "\n"' returned /usr/bin/perl

I check in the /System/Library/Perl area, and found two folders: 5.8.9 and 5.10.0 . I ran 'perl -v' and it gave this "This is perl, v5.10.0 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level"

So my question is that how do I install the "make" so that I am able to install modules directly from CPAN and don't have to install them manually?

Appreciate your help.

In reply to Make not working in CPAN shell on OSX by Anshu

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