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woofb · 06-09-2008, 09:50 AM

Help, cannot get perl to make. I have a Mac (OS X) and a Linux tiny laptop (eeePC). Both of them report a reasonable version of Perl (5.8.8) but throw an error on any attempt to make anything, including Palm::PDB &c. I can download from cpan, but everything seems to crash & burn at the last minute.

I get up to "Checking if your kit is complete. Looks good" and then I
get:
Writing Makefile for [whatever] -- NOT OK
Running make test.
Can't test without successful make.
Running make install
make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

'which make' doesn't turn up anything.

What am I doing wrong?

06-09-2008, 09:50 AM	#525
woofb Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2007	Perl problem Help, cannot get perl to make. I have a Mac (OS X) and a Linux tiny laptop (eeePC). Both of them report a reasonable version of Perl (5.8.8) but throw an error on any attempt to make anything, including Palm::PDB &c. I can download from cpan, but everything seems to crash & burn at the last minute. I get up to "Checking if your kit is complete. Looks good" and then I get: Writing Makefile for [whatever] -- NOT OK Running make test. Can't test without successful make. Running make install make had returned bad status, install seems impossible 'which make' doesn't turn up anything. What am I doing wrong?