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

Hello, I am trying to install my first module for perl 5.10 on a mac, using: perl -MCPAN e 'install Sort::External' the program tries to install a prerequisite, Clone 0, and thereupon it crashes: it cannot write the Makefile for Clone ("- not ok") After that nothing works - make, make test, etc - and I end up with nothing installed. If anyone can explain to me what is going on and how to solve it, i'd be very very grateful! Thanks! Pedro
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Re: install module - can't "make" anything.
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 04, 2008 at 04:39 UTC

    Do you have XCode installed?

    How did you install Perl 5.10?

    What's the exact error message?

Re: install module - can't "make" anything.
by olus (Curate) on Mar 04, 2008 at 13:47 UTC

    On a fresh Mac OS X install you don't have make available. The " - not ok" shows that there is something missing before the '-'. You'll need to install the Developer Tools.