Spidy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings, fellow Monks,

I've been trying to install a few perl modules recently, but to no avail. Seeing as I'm on a Mac, I've been using the "sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell" method to start up CPAN, and then just "install Module::Name" to try and get the modules installed.

Now, generally, it all goes fine until one point: the make file. The moment that we come to that point, everything breaks. Here's what happens: 

  CPAN.pm: Going to build Module/Module/module.tar.gaz

    -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
And everything promptly stops. Does anyone know how I could fix this problem?
Thanks,
Spidy
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Re: Cpan make problem
by merlyn (Sage) on May 12, 2006 at 02:59 UTC
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      I did install the developer tools, but not the BSD subsystem. How would I go about setting that up?
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        It's one of the options during your initial install. Not sure if you can do it after the fact. Try inserting your distro media and booting off that, and seeing if you can upgrade by selecting that.

        You might also be able to find a ".pkg" file with a name like "BSD Subsystem" on the distro media... I can't look at mine since it's 1500 miles away. {grin}

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