... in my latest "cpan force install Alien::wxWidgets" ... I now have an error message saying Alien::wxWidgets cannot be compiled:

Force means go ahead and install even if ... testing ... fails

But if there is a problem building/cc++compiling a distribution, then there is no module to be installed , as it hasn't been built/compiled yet, so nothing that can be force installed

If you want to build this module you need to step outside of cpan (  cpan[2]> notest install HTTP::Proxy ) and run these commands yourself 

    perl Build.PL
    perl Build
    perl Build test
    perl Build install

[download]

Then you'll have an idea of where the problem lies and can go about solving it -- when automatic doesn't work you gotta go step by step

wxWidgets has over 5000 files, and a couple of hundred makefile.gcc files ...

If Alien-wxWidgets/Build.PL can't download the source ...

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Alien-wxWidgets/README.txt

In reply to Re^4: "cpan force install" can't connect to sourceforge.net by Anonymous Monk
in thread "cpan force install" can't connect to sourceforge.net by Amphiaraus

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