Well, I was finally able to get it to work by making a bunch of changes to the Makefile. Then I also had to copy the binary stuff by hand ( mv ./blib/arch/auto/DateTime /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread- multi/auto/.).
Here are the changes I had to make in case anyone is interested... I don't know why the Makefile got so mashed, but it looks like it did. I don't usually have any trouble building stuff, so it seems like something maybe wrong with Makefile.PL? Dunno... thanks, ken. ----Here's the diff of my 'fixed' makefile and the generated one (perl Makefile.PL --xs)----------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] DateTime-0.21]# diff Makefile Makefile.ken 49,51c49,51 < LIB_EXT = .a' < libc=' < OBJ_EXT = ub --- > LIB_EXT = .a > libc=/lib/libc-2.3.2.so > OBJ_EXT = .o 54c54 < RANLIB = _ --- > RANLIB = : 75c75 < VENDORPREFIX = buti --- > VENDORPREFIX = /usr 77,89c77,79 < INSTALLSITELIB = /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0' < installsiteman1='/usr/share/man/man1' < installsiteman3='/usr/share/man/man3' < installsitescript='/usr/bin' < installstyle='lib/perl5' < installusrbinperl='define' < installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i 386-linux-thread-multi' < installvendorbin='/usr/bin' < installvendorhtml1='' < installvendorhtml3='' < installvendorlib='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8. < INSTALLVENDORLIB = ib/perl5' < installusrbinperl='def --- > INSTALLSITELIB = /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 > INSTALLVENDORARCH = /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread- multi > INSTALLVENDORLIB = /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 92,101c82,84 < INSTALLVENDORARCH = /usr/lib/perl5/ven < INSTALLBIN = /usr/bin' < installhtml1dir='' < installhtml3dir='' < installman1 < INSTALLSITEBIN = /usr < INSTALLVENDORBIN = /usr/bin' < installvendorhtml1='' < installvendorhtml3='' < installvendorlib='/u --- > INSTALLBIN = /usr/bin > INSTALLSITEBIN = /usr/bin > INSTALLVENDORBIN = /usr/bin 105,109c88,90 < SITELIBEXP = '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl' < sit < SITEARCHEXP = /usr/lib/pe < LIBPERL_A = libperl.a' < libc=' --- > SITELIBEXP = /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 > SITEARCHEXP = /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386- linux-thread-multi > LIBPERL_A = libperl.a 154,155c135,136 < O_FILES = DateTimeub \ < testub --- > O_FILES = DateTime.o \ > test.o 248,249c229 < SHELL = /bin/sh' < shar=' --- > SHELL = /bin/sh -- Ken Burcham Ken Burcham Consulting, Inc. http://www.capemaystation.com
