Hi Corion

Thanks for the quick response!

My apologies I've been looking at this for weeks and I've just realized the problem. The issue is because there's a *.c file in the same directory (used for an SUID). ExtUtils must see this and assume that it's meant to be compiling some C despite there being no mention of the file in the Makefile.PL or MANIFEST

I just deleted the C source and it remembered how to do perl.

byron@asmbox:~/asm-restapi$ rm asmctl.c
byron@asmbox:~/asm-restapi$ make
cp lib/asmapi.pm blib/lib/asmapi.pm
cp bin/asmapi.pl blib/script/asmapi.pl
...
byron@asmbox:~/asm-restapi$ make distclean
byron@asmbox:~/asm-restapi$ touch somthing.c
byron@asmbox:~/asm-restapi$ make distclean && perl Makefile.PL
byron@asmbox:~/asm-restapi$ make
cp lib/asmapi.pm blib/lib/asmapi.pm
Running Mkbootstrap for asmapi ()
chmod 644 "asmapi.bs"
rm -f blib/arch/auto/asmapi/asmapi.so
cc  -shared -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector asmapi.o  -o blib/arch/
+auto/asmapi/asmapi.so     \
             \
      
cc: error: asmapi.o: No such file or directory
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Doesn't mention this in the manual.

Thanks anyway!