CPAN Shell on Mac OS X (10.3) Not Installing Modules

From: Jim Keenan (jkeen_via_google_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/21/04

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    I recently installed Perl 5.8.4 on Mac OS X 10.3. It successfully
    installed under /usr/local/bin, and I have had no problem running Perl
    scripts or manually installing modules from CPAN.

    However, so far I have not succeeded in installing a single module via
    the cpan shell. If I try to install via the cpan shell (e.g. 'install
    Module::Build'), I can successfully fetch the tarball, but inevitably
    encounter this error message.

            -- NOT OK
        Running make test
          Can't test without successful make
        Running make install
          make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

    When I go to the .cpan/build/ subdirectory for a module fetched by the
    shell, I can manually install provided (a) I preface each command with
    'sudo'; and (b) the module does not have additional dependencies which
    require additional installations from CPAN.

    This process rapidly gets tedious when attempting to install a module
    like WWW::Mechanize, which has a veritable forest of dependencies.

    I tried calling 'sudo cpan' to invoke the shell, but had no better
    results.

    What am I doing wrong? How do I get the cpan shell to work properly?

    Thank you very much.

    Jim Keenan

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