in reply to Makefile problem

Well, you ran the wrong command. You should have done something like this: 

# perl -MCPAN -e shell

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cpan> install modulename

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I find this much more reliable than perl Makefile.PL

ALL HAIL BRAK!!!

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Re: Re: Makefile problem
by ok (Beadle) on Feb 04, 2001 at 09:56 UTC
    cpan> install modulename

    ...which will eventually run perl Makefile.PL?
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      Yes, but it also will download the files and should get the line endings correct.
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        Yes, but it [CPAN.pm] also will download the files and should get the line endings correct.

        From the original posting:

        I downloaded an unpackged the tgz file

        So unless you can explain some way to download a compressed tar archive in such a way that the archive still successfully uncompresses and extracts but the line endings in the internal files are changed, I don't see how the downloading could have been the problem.

                - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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