In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Armstrong) wrote:
> This is on a Mac right? Were you logged in as root when you installed > it? /private/var/root is root's home directory. > > Ideally you should run CPAN as you rather than as root. Configure > cpan to use sudo to gain adequate privileges for make install or ./ > Build install: > > make_install_make_command [sudo make] > mbuild_install_build_command [sudo ./Build] > > If you do that and reinstall CPAN::Reporter you should find that it > looks for its ini file in your home dir. yes, is on mac :) i'm not logged as root (never), i just 'sudo cpan'. i made change in my config.pm but it is still not sufficient. i made a 'chmod -R a+r' in '/Users/admin/.cpan/build/' and now all works fine. thanks for your help andy ! -- klp