Kirti, When I've run into really wierd stuff like this with CPAN, I changed my mirror. Its in wherever_perl_is_installed/CPAN/Config.pm. Change the urllist to use another one. My primary mirror stopped being updated. Switching to #2 solved my problems.
HTH, Dave On Sep 13, Kirti S. Bajwa scribed: > Hello: > > RH9 + MySQL-4.0.21 > > Couple of days ago, I posted a message indicating that I was getting errors > when I install Perl modules. I did not include the error, so here it is; > > % perl -MCPAN -e shell > Note: Answer "no" to auto-configure perl. > cpan> install Bundle::CPAN > cpan> install Data::Dumper > cpan> install Bundle::DBI > cpan> install Bundle::DBD::mysql > > After I enter the last/above "cpan>" command, there are number of output > lines & then this error: > --------------- > >Using DBI 1.43 (for perl 5.08 on i386-linux-thread-multi) installed > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI > >Writing Makefile for DBD::mysql > >Makefile:89: *** missing seprator. Stop > /usr/bin/make --NOT OK > >Running make test > Can't test without successful make > >Running make install > make had returned bad status, install seems impossible > >Running install for module DBD::mysql > >Running make for R/RU/RUDY/DBD-mysql-2.9004.tar.gz > is already unrapped into directory /root/.cpan/build/DBD-mysql-2.9004 > Has already been processed within this session > >Running make test > Can't test without successful make > >Running make install > make had return bad status, install seems impossible > >Bundle summary: The following items in bundle Bundle::DBD::mysql had > installation problems: > Mysql DBD::mysql > cpan> > --------------- > > I must admit, I am pretty new to installing PERL modules. This is all new to > me. I appreciate if someone can explain what is going on, what there error > messages mean & how to fix it? > > I have been to PERL official site but these error messages seem to be > unique. > > Thanks in advance. > > Kirti >
