[PLUG] CPAN weirdness

Paul Heinlein heinlein at attbi.com
Mon Jun 24 16:00:51 UTC 2002


On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 cmoore at lunchbox.hellyeah.org wrote:

> Can anyone think of a reason why a module wont build automatically
> with CPAN but by hand it works just fine?

When you build via CPAN, you're building as root, right? Try doing 
this at the cpan prompt:

cpan> ! foreach my $k ( keys %ENV ) { print qq($k -> $ENV{"$k"}\n) }

Then do the same in environment in which you successfully built the 
module by hand. Are there any differences?

Next, look at <perl root>/<perl vers>/CPAN/Config.pm (on my Red Hat 
system, it's /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/CPAN/Config.pm). Are the paths 
supplied to the various executables like make, gzip, etc. correct?

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>





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