Re: Problem installing Perl modules

It could also be a permission problem, in some weird interaction with two versions of Perl being installed...

Try enabling double-verbose mode:

$ perl Makefile.PL verbose verbose
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It should then output a lot of stuff, among which you should find "Result: ...", indicating why the calling of perl failed...

Also, what's the permission of the actual binary (i.e. not the link)?

$ ls -l /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl
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$ ls -lL /usr/bin/perl
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Re^2: Problem installing Perl modules by msk_0984 (Friar) on Aug 02, 2007 at 13:26 UTC
Yaah on executing the above command using double verbose I am getting lot of stuff being printed. `. . . Checking /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl Executing /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl Result: '' . . Checking /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl Executing /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl Result: '' Checking /usr/sbin/perl Checking /usr/bin/perl Executing /usr/bin/perl Result: '' . . .` [download] permission of the actual binary are `ls -l /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Jul 25 00:18 /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin +/perl -> perl-static` [download] Sushil Kumar	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Problem installing Perl modules by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 02, 2007 at 13:40 UTC
So, let us play that same game once again. What do the following commands output? `/usr/bin/perl -v /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl -v /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl-static -v` [download] Also, what groups do these programs all belong to? `ls -l /usr/bin/perl /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/b +in/perl-static` [download] From the output you get, it seems neither `/usr/bin/perl` nor `/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl` nor `/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl-static` are executable for the user you're running things as. Talk to your sysadmin to fix these things.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Problem installing Perl modules by almut (Canon) on Aug 02, 2007 at 13:42 UTC
`ls -l /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Jul 25 00:18 /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin +/perl -> perl-static` [download] That's still a symlink... It's probably easier to use option `-L`, which dereferences across any levels of links... Also, what happens, if you try calling `/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl -v` and `/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl -e'require 5.008.8'` manually? Apparently, that's failing from within ExtUtils::MakeMaker (or more precisely, ExtUtils::MM_Unix)...	[reply] [d/l] [select]