I suspect this is a variation on an old cpan bug-bear of mine.

Instead of just using the string 'perl' in the commands it is going to run and allowing the appropriate executable to be found by the system shell and perl, they get all premature optimise-y about it and insist on trying to find the perl executable's path so they can avoid using the shell by invoking perl directly.

The problem -- if it is the same one -- is that they insist on looking for a perl executable called 'perl' when it will be called 'perl.exe' on Windows.

The only 'fix' (that I found) was to hack your way through the Byzantine maze of pseud--OO configuration scripts to locate the string constant and modify it. The problem is that (IIRC) the bit you need is included from a partial script with a .in extension.

Sorry I cannot be more specific. Nor more sure that this is actually the solution.

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In reply to Re: [Win32] Math::GSL on perl 5.10.0 by BrowserUk
in thread [Win32] Math::GSL on perl 5.10.0 by syphilis

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