I'm trying to upgrade to perl 5.10 from 5.8.8. I'm running Fedora 8, which apparently there isn't a binary for. I'm hitting this error when I try to make test: 
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/perl-5.10.0/ext/Hash/Util'
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/perl-5.10.0/ext/Hash/Util/FieldHash
+'
make[2]: Makefile: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `Makefile'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/perl-5.10.0/ext/Hash/Util/FieldHash'
make[1]: *** [subdirs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/perl-5.10.0/ext/Hash/Util'
make: *** [lib/auto/Hash/Util/Util.so] Error 2

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I looked in /root/perl-5.10.0/ext/Hash/Util, and this is what I see: 
[root@*** Util]# ls -al
total 92
drwxr-xr-x 6 1000 1000  4096 2008-10-08 08:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 1000 1000  4096 2007-12-18 04:47 ..
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root  4096 2008-10-08 08:15 blib
-r--r--r-- 1 1000 1000   644 2007-12-18 04:47 Changes
drwxr-xr-x 4 1000 1000  4096 2008-10-08 08:13 FieldHash
drwxr-xr-x 3 1000 1000  4096 2007-12-18 04:47 lib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28191 2008-10-08 08:13 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28191 2008-10-08 07:43 Makefile.old
-r--r--r-- 1 1000 1000  1349 2007-12-18 04:47 Makefile.PL
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 2008-10-08 08:15 pm_to_blib
drwxr-xr-x 2 1000 1000  4096 2007-12-18 04:47 t
-r--r--r-- 1 1000 1000  2570 2007-12-18 04:47 Util.xs
[root@*** Util]# ls -al FieldHash/
total 64
drwxr-xr-x 4 1000 1000  4096 2008-10-08 08:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 1000 1000  4096 2008-10-08 08:15 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 1000 1000  1030 2007-12-18 04:47 Changes
-r--r--r-- 1 1000 1000 13469 2007-12-18 04:47 FieldHash.xs
drwxr-xr-x 3 1000 1000  4096 2007-12-18 04:47 lib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22080 2008-10-08 08:13 Makefile.old
-r--r--r-- 1 1000 1000   994 2007-12-18 04:47 Makefile.PL
drwxr-xr-x 2 1000 1000  4096 2007-12-18 04:47 t

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Indeed, there is no Makefile in FieldHash. Why would what happen? I got this from source from perl.org. Has anybody run across this before? In case it helps: 
[root@*** Util]# uname -a
Linux *** 2.6.26.5-28.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Sep 20 09:32:58 EDT 2008 i686 i68
+6 i386 GNU/Linux

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In reply to Perl 5.10 FieldHash make problem by sstevens

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