Thanks a million. I am now sorted. I installed the perl-devel rpm and did the CPAN install like you said I should. Cool bananas!
Quoting Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The problem that I am having now is that I am trying to install a new > module > > (Crypt::SecurID). > > The easy way to install modules is to use the CPAN shell tool. It can be > invoked on the command line by doing a > > $ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell > > The first time you run it you get asked a series of questions that takes > five minutes or so to complete, but isn't very hard to do -- most of the > default suggestions are reasonable so you can mostly just keep hitting > "enter" to accept the defaults. > > Once the CPAN shell is open, you can install modules from there: > > cpan> install Crypt::SecurID > > This will find, download, build, test, and install the module you need, > along with any modules that it depends on. This is much, much easier > than doing everything by hand the way things used to be done. > > But that's an aside; your problem is different. > > > I downloaded the tgz file and extracted that on some dir as root. I > > then (as per instructions that came with the tarball) ran perl > > MakeFile.PL. Thereafter I ran make and got the following error: make: > > *** No rule to make target > > `/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/config.h', needed > > by `Makefile'. Stop. > > That's not good. Do you actually have a file called -- > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/config.h > > -- ? Does it have Stuff in it? > > > What could be I doing wrong? Is it perhaps some stuff that I need to > > install? I am using Mandrake 10.0. > > Have you been able to install any other modules? > > I'm not familiar with Mandrake, but some systems draw a distinction > between core applications (Perl, MySQL) and the development headers that > are needed to build other applications (perhaps perl-dev, mysql-dev, > etc). Could there be a development branch of Perl needed on Mandrake? > > I'll look into that & get back if no one else responds with a better > idea... > > > -- > Chris Devers > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
