in reply to Re^3: Installing modules, specifically WWW::Mechanize
in thread Installing modules, specifically WWW::Mechanize

Here's the result of that:

cpan> install HTML::Tagset CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /Users/username/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:30:48 GMT Running install for module HTML::Tagset Running make for P/PE/PETDANCE/HTML-Tagset-3.20.tar.gz CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok Checksum for /Users/username/.cpan/sources/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/HT +ML-Tagset-3.20.tar.gz ok Scanning cache /Users/username/.cpan/build for sizes 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

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Re^5: Installing modules, specifically WWW::Mechanize
by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 05, 2008 at 08:03 UTC

    This is really weird because I don't see anything in the HTML::Tagset Makefile.PL that would generate a failure to write the Makefile. Maybe you can try the following:

    1. Open a shell
    2. Change into /Users/username/.cpan/build/HTML-Tagset-3.20
    3. Run perl -w Makefile.PL
    4. Watch the error messages (if any)

    ... but I'm at a loss what could make HTML::Tagset fail on your machine, as the CPAN Testers Matrix for HTML::Tagset does not indicate any problems anywhere (although I see that I need to take up Win32 CPAN smoking again :-/)...

      Instead of opening a shell and changing to the HTML-Tagset-3.20 directory by hand, is much easier to perform this from the CPAN shell:
      clean HTML::Tagset look HTML::Tagset
      And then, run:
      perl -w Makefile.PL