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

I am very new to working with Perl. After reading an article about it, I very much want to install WWW::Mechanize. I am working on a Mac, so I tried used the pre-installed CPAN module to add it. It was the first time I'd run CPAN, so I let it do the auto install options, which is probably at the root of my problems.

I entered install WWW::Mechanize. Basically, at the end I got this message:

Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

[download]

I thought it might be because I didn't have some other required modules, like LWP or something. So I tried to install Bundle::LWP. I got the same errors at the end.

I probably sound like an idiot, but how can I easily install modules? What am I doing wrong?

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Re: Installing modules, specifically WWW::Mechanize
by Fletch (Bishop) on Mar 05, 2008 at 04:48 UTC

    Just to toss something out: are you sure you have make available? If you haven't installed the developer tools (the package will be available on your OS media) you're probably going to be missing it (among other things such as a compiler and what not that will also come in handy, erm, compiling things).

    Update: If you have make, this command should produce similar output. 

    $ pkgutil --file-info $(which make)
volume: /
path: usr/bin/make

pkgid: com.apple.pkg.DeveloperToolsCLILeo
pkg-version: 1.0.0.9000000000.1.1192168948
install-time: 1199144742
uid: 0
gid: 0
mode: 120755

    [download]

    The cake is a lie.
    The cake is a lie.
    The cake is a lie.

[reply]
[d/l]

      I am not sure. How would I check?

      Update: I suppose not, then. Here's what I got:

      $ pkgutil --file-info $(which make)
-bash: pkgutil: command not found

      [download]

      I need to install the developer tools for Mac now?

[reply]
[d/l]
Re: Installing modules, specifically WWW::Mechanize
by anthski (Scribe) on Mar 05, 2008 at 03:56 UTC
    It appears that there is a compilation error (hence why 'make' has a bad status), but why this is the case isn't evident from the 4 lines that you have included. Can you include more of the output (preferably all of it) ?
[reply]

      Sure thing. It's long, but whatever.

      cpan> install WWW::Mechanize 
Running install for module WWW::Mechanize
Running make for P/PE/PETDANCE/WWW-Mechanize-1.34.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Checksum for /Users/username/.cpan/sources/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/WW
+W-Mechanize-1.34.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /Users/username/.cpan/build for sizes
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/bin/
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/bin/mech-dump
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/Changes
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/etc/
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/etc/www-mechanize-logo.png
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/lib/
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/lib/WWW/
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/lib/WWW/Mechanize/
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Cookbook.pod
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Examples.pod
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/lib/WWW/Mechanize/FAQ.pod
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Image.pm
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Link.pm
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/Makefile.PL
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/MANIFEST
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/META.yml
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/perlcriticrc
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/00-load.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/add_header.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/aliases.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/area_link.html
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/area_link.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/autocheck.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/clone.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/die.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/field.html
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/field.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/find_frame.html
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/find_frame.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/find_image.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/find_inputs.html
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/find_inputs.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/find_link-warnings.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/find_link.html
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/find_link.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/find_link_id.html
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/find_link_id.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/form-parsing.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/frames.html
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/frames.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/google.html
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/image-new.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/image-parse.html
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/image-parse.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/link-base.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/link-relative.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/link.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/live/
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/live/computers4sure.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/live/wikipedia.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/local/
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/local/back.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/local/click.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/local/click_button.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/local/failure.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/local/follow.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/local/form.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/local/get.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/local/LocalServer.pm
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/local/log-server
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/local/overload.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/local/page_stack.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/local/referer-server
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/local/referer.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/local/reload.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/local/submit.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/mech-dump/
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/mech-dump/mech-dump.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/new.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/pod-coverage.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/pod.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/regex-error.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/save_content.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/select.html
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/select.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/taint.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/tick.html
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/tick.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/upload.html
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/upload.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/warn.t
WWW-Mechanize-1.34/t/warnings.t
Removing previously used /Users/username/.cpan/build/WWW-Mechanize-1.3
+4

  CPAN.pm: Going to build P/PE/PETDANCE/WWW-Mechanize-1.34.tar.gz


WWW::Mechanize likes to have a lot of test modules for some of its tes
+ts.
The following are modules that would be nice to have, but not required
+.

        Test::Pod
        Test::Memory::Cycle
        Test::Warn
        Test::Taint


Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Warning: prerequisite HTML::Form 1.038 not found.
Warning: prerequisite HTML::TokeParser 2.28 not found.
Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Daemon 0 not found.
Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Request 1.3 not found.
Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Status 0 not found.
Warning: prerequisite LWP 5.802 not found.
Warning: prerequisite LWP::UserAgent 2.024 not found.
Writing Makefile for WWW::Mechanize
---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during [P/PE/PETDANCE/WWW-Mecha
+nize-1.34.tar.gz] -----
    HTML::Form
    HTTP::Status
    LWP::UserAgent
    HTTP::Daemon
    HTTP::Request
    LWP
Shall I follow them and prepend them to the queue
of modules we are processing right now? [yes] yes
Running make test
  Delayed until after prerequisites
Running make install
  Delayed until after prerequisites
Running install for module HTML::Form
Running make for G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.808.tar.gz
Checksum for /Users/username/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/libwww
+-perl-5.808.tar.gz ok
libwww-perl-5.808/
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Cookies.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Status.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Cookies/
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Cookies/Netscape.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Cookies/Microsoft.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Request/
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Request/Common.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Headers/
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Headers/Auth.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Headers/ETag.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Headers/Util.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Request.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Response.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Date.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Daemon.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Message.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Negotiate.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTTP/Headers.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Protocol/
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Protocol/nntp.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Protocol/ftp.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Protocol/mailto.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Protocol/GHTTP.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Protocol/nogo.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Protocol/file.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Protocol/loopback.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Protocol/data.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Protocol/https10.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Protocol/http10.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Protocol/https.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Protocol/gopher.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Protocol/cpan.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Protocol/http.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/RobotUA.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Authen/
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Authen/Ntlm.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Authen/Digest.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Authen/Basic.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/MemberMixin.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/media.types
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/DebugFile.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Debug.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/UserAgent.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/MediaTypes.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Protocol.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/ConnCache.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Simple.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/WWW/
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/WWW/RobotRules/
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/WWW/RobotRules/AnyDBM_File.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/WWW/RobotRules.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/File/
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/File/Listing.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/Net/
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/Net/HTTP/
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/Net/HTTP/Methods.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/Net/HTTP/NB.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/Net/HTTP.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/Net/HTTPS.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/Bundle/
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/Bundle/LWP.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTML/
libwww-perl-5.808/lib/HTML/Form.pm
libwww-perl-5.808/t/
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/headers-util.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/status.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/cookies.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/headers-etag.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/http.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/date.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/listing.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/response.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/headers-auth.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/common-req.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/protocols.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/message.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/mediatypes.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/ua.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/headers.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/negotiate.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/message-old.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/base/message-parts.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/live/
libwww-perl-5.808/t/live/apache.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/live/jigsaw-te.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/live/jigsaw-md5-get.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/live/jigsaw-neg.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/live/jigsaw-auth-d.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/live/apache-listing.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/live/jigsaw-md5.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/live/jigsaw-neg-get.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/live/jigsaw-chunk.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/live/jigsaw-auth-b.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/local/
libwww-perl-5.808/t/local/get.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/local/autoload.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/local/chunked.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/local/http.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/local/http-get.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/local/autoload-get.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/local/protosub.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/net/
libwww-perl-5.808/t/net/http-get.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/net/cgi-bin/
libwww-perl-5.808/t/net/cgi-bin/nph-slowdata
libwww-perl-5.808/t/net/cgi-bin/moved
libwww-perl-5.808/t/net/cgi-bin/test
libwww-perl-5.808/t/net/cgi-bin/slowread
libwww-perl-5.808/t/net/cgi-bin/timeout
libwww-perl-5.808/t/net/proxy.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/net/http-post.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/net/moved.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/net/http-timeout.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/net/config.pl.dist
libwww-perl-5.808/t/net/mirror.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/robot/
libwww-perl-5.808/t/robot/rules.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/robot/ua.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/robot/ua-get.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/robot/rules-dbm.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/README
libwww-perl-5.808/t/html/
libwww-perl-5.808/t/html/form-param.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/html/form.t
libwww-perl-5.808/t/TEST
libwww-perl-5.808/bin/
libwww-perl-5.808/bin/lwp-rget
libwww-perl-5.808/bin/lwp-mirror
libwww-perl-5.808/bin/lwp-download
libwww-perl-5.808/bin/lwp-request
libwww-perl-5.808/Makefile.PL
libwww-perl-5.808/talk-to-ourself
libwww-perl-5.808/lwptut.pod
libwww-perl-5.808/MANIFEST
libwww-perl-5.808/README.SSL
libwww-perl-5.808/Changes
libwww-perl-5.808/AUTHORS
libwww-perl-5.808/README
libwww-perl-5.808/lwpcook.pod
Removing previously used /Users/username/.cpan/build/libwww-perl-5.808

  CPAN.pm: Going to build G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.808.tar.gz


This package comes with some sample programs that I can try
to install in /usr/bin.

   Note that you can avoid these questions by passing
   the '-n' option to 'Makefile.PL'.

Do you want to install lwp-request? [y] y
Do you want to install lwp-mirror? [y] y
Do you want to install lwp-rget? [y] y
Do you want to install lwp-download? [y] y

The lwp-request program will use the name it is invoked with to
determine what HTTP method to use.  I can set up alias for the most
common HTTP methods.  These alias are also installed in
/usr/bin.

Do you want to install the GET alias? [n] n
Do you want to install the HEAD alias? [n] n
Do you want to install the POST alias? [n] n

Checking for URI........... ok
Checking for HTML::Parser.. ok
Checking for MIME::Base64.. ok
Checking for Net::FTP...... ok
Checking for Digest::MD5 .. ok

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Warning: prerequisite HTML::Tagset 0 not found.
Writing Makefile for LWP
---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during [G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5
+.808.tar.gz] -----
    HTML::Tagset
Shall I follow them and prepend them to the queue
of modules we are processing right now? [yes] yes
Running make test
  Delayed until after prerequisites
Running make install
  Delayed until after prerequisites
Running install for module HTML::Tagset
Running make for P/PE/PETDANCE/HTML-Tagset-3.20.tar.gz
Checksum for /Users/username/.cpan/sources/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/HT
+ML-Tagset-3.20.tar.gz ok
HTML-Tagset-3.20/
HTML-Tagset-3.20/Tagset.pm
HTML-Tagset-3.20/Makefile.PL
HTML-Tagset-3.20/META.yml
HTML-Tagset-3.20/MANIFEST.SKIP
HTML-Tagset-3.20/MANIFEST
HTML-Tagset-3.20/README
HTML-Tagset-3.20/t/
HTML-Tagset-3.20/t/01_old_junk.t
HTML-Tagset-3.20/t/pod.t
HTML-Tagset-3.20/t/00_about_verbose.t
HTML-Tagset-3.20/Changes
Removing previously used /Users/username/.cpan/build/HTML-Tagset-3.20

  CPAN.pm: Going to build P/PE/PETDANCE/HTML-Tagset-3.20.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for HTML::Tagset
    -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Running make for G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.808.tar.gz
  Is already unwrapped into directory /Users/username/.cpan/build/libw
+ww-perl-5.808

  CPAN.pm: Going to build G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.808.tar.gz

    -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Running install for module HTTP::Status
Running make for G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.808.tar.gz
  Is already unwrapped into directory /Users/username/.cpan/build/libw
+ww-perl-5.808
  Has already been processed within this session
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Running install for module LWP::UserAgent
Running make for G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.808.tar.gz
  Is already unwrapped into directory /Users/username/.cpan/build/libw
+ww-perl-5.808
  Has already been processed within this session
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Running install for module HTTP::Daemon
Running make for G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.808.tar.gz
  Is already unwrapped into directory /Users/username/.cpan/build/libw
+ww-perl-5.808
  Has already been processed within this session
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Running install for module HTTP::Request
Running make for G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.808.tar.gz
  Is already unwrapped into directory /Users/username/.cpan/build/libw
+ww-perl-5.808
  Has already been processed within this session
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Running install for module LWP
Running make for G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.808.tar.gz
  Is already unwrapped into directory /Users/username/.cpan/build/libw
+ww-perl-5.808
  Has already been processed within this session
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Running make for P/PE/PETDANCE/WWW-Mechanize-1.34.tar.gz
  Is already unwrapped into directory /Users/username/.cpan/build/WWW-
+Mechanize-1.34

  CPAN.pm: Going to build P/PE/PETDANCE/WWW-Mechanize-1.34.tar.gz

    -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

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[d/l]

        The original error is here:

        Writing Makefile for HTML::Tagset
    -- NOT OK

        [download]

        This means that something went wrong when Perl tried to install HTML::Tagset. Maybe run that one alone to see the part better where it fails.

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