Dear Anonymous Monk:

Thank you for your advice. On the compiler issue, here is what I got doing your tests:

matrix01 51# perl -V:cc
cc='cc';
matrix01 52# which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
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I tried installing Params::Validate but I wind up with the same snag:

cpanm (App::cpanminus) 1.5006 on perl 5.008009 built for i686-linux
Work directory is /rhome/dotykg/.cpanm/work/1322841720.1851
You have make /usr/bin/make
You have /usr/bin/wget
You have /bin/tar: tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1
You have /usr/bin/unzip
Searching Params::Validate on cpanmetadb ...
--> Working on Params::Validate
Fetching http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/Params-Va
+lidate-1.00.tar.gz
-> OK
Unpacking Params-Validate-1.00.tar.gz
Entering Params-Validate-1.00
Checking configure dependencies from META.yml
Checking if you have Module::Build 0.3601 ... Yes (0.3800)
Configuring Params-Validate-1.00
Running Build.PL
Warning: ExtUtils::CBuilder not installed or no compiler detected
Proceeding with configuration, but compilation may fail during Build

Created MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
Creating new 'Build' script for 'Params-Validate' version '1.00'
-> OK
Checking dependencies from MYMETA.json ...
Checking if you have Test::More 0.88 ... Yes (0.98)
Checking if you have Module::Build 0.3601 ... Yes (0.3800)
Checking if you have ExtUtils::CBuilder 0 ... Yes (0.280202)
Checking if you have Scalar::Util 1.10 ... Yes (1.19)
Checking if you have Attribute::Handlers 0.79 ... Yes (0.91)
Building and testing Params-Validate-1.00
Building Params-Validate
Error: no compiler detected to compile 'lib/Params/Validate.c'.  Abort
+ing
-> FAIL Installing Params::Validate failed. See /rhome/dotykg/.cpanm/b
+uild.log for details.
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Do you possibly have any other ideas? Many thanks, Kevin Doty

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