Re: Trouble installing from CPAN



Bob Mortimer wrote:
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, if not I'll be happy to be
redirected.

I installed an updated OS recently (Mandriva 2007) and have had trouble
installing perl modules since. I initially had a lot of 'no rule to make
target' messages whether installing via CPAN or just compiling the modules
manually but got that fixed by installing the perl-devel RPM.

I'm still getting lots of trouble with it. Here's a typical error report,
but I get similar ones with every module I try to install (via cpan as
root):

make: *** No rule to make target `1'. Stop.
/usr/bin/make install 1 -- NOT OK

First thought is that it looks like CPAN.pm is erroneously giving an
argument of 1 to the `make install` command. From your CPAN shell,
type:
o conf make_install_arg

If that shows you a [1], you need to clear that argument:
o conf make_install_arg ""
o conf commit

Otherwise, is it possible that whatever the command to `make` is in
CPAN is actually an alias for something like "/usr/bin/make $1 1" ?

Paul Lalli

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