No rule to make target `/home/zentara/perlmodules/PDL-2.4.3/Basic/Gen
+/pm_to_blib', needed by `Bad.pm'.  Stop.
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The only 2.4.3 failures I see on CPAN testers arise because:

cp pptemplate ../../blib/script/pptemplate
cp: pptemplate: No such file or directory
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I think that issue has been addressed in the CVS version available from Sourceforge. For CVS access, see http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=612.

What OS are you running ? And which 'make' utility ?

Oooops ... I see you've already filed a bug report that answers those questions :-)
This may be an hitherto unknown problem - a post to the PDL-Porters mailing list might provide an answer if you don't get one here (but first try the latest CVS version, if that's possible).

I've built PDL-2.4.3 without any problem on Mandrake Linux (osvers=2.4.21-0.13.mdk), (unthreaded) perl-5.8.8. I guess it's some problem with Basic/Bad/Makefile.PL ( ... or is that just stating the obvious ? :-)

If you do post to the porters list, also include that section of the output of 'perl Makefile.PL' that shows the badvalues options that have been selected.

Cheers,
Rob