In article <4ce365ec0611061453u6907625exa49b87a7f21f4e93 @mail.gmail.com>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > And there's the rub, of course: your issue with CPAN--or one of > them--is that you don't have make. CPAN modules aren't distributed as > compiled binaries (insofar as such a thing exists for Perl). They > require configuration for each individual machine and OS they're > installed on; that's why you can install them on such a wide range of > platforms and operating systems: author include forking, platform > specific logic in the configure routines. Make is the standard for > this kind of configuration, and Perl modules rely on it. Many also > rely on the presence of a C compiler, particularly XML parsers, which > often link to standard external libraries.
I don't think that make is the issue. CPAN did not even get to the step where it tries to call make. See my message after this on Nov 6. Well, never mind, the problem appears to be "LWP is not available" and here is the error message: ======================================== LWP not available Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file (http://141.217.1.55/cpan/ http://216.52.237.135 ftp://69.16.251.60/CPAN/) are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/' Could not fetch authors/01mailrc.txt.gz LWP not available Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file (http://141.217.1.55/cpan/ http://216.52.237.135 ftp://69.16.251.60/CPAN/) are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/' Could not fetch modules/02packages.details.txt.gz LWP not available Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file (http://141.217.1.55/cpan/ http://216.52.237.135 ftp://69.16.251.60/CPAN/) are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/' Could not fetch modules/03modlist.data.gz ======================================== Our Sun ftp is not set up with an entry pointing to a DNS server so I had to look up the IP address and put them in my CPAN/Config.pm file myself. I now have 3 different CPAN mirrors in CPAN/Config.pm. So now, our Sun FTP util can reach the internet, but CPAN has other problems since "LWP is not available". How do I fix LWP if I can't install any modules via CPAN? Perhaps I did not edit the Config.pm properly. Did I use the q construct correctly for listing multiple URLs? Here's what I have: 'urllist' => [q[http://141.217.1.55/cpan/ http://216.52.237.135 ftp://69.16.251.60/CPAN/]], p.s. I found make in /usr/ccs/bin. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
