On Wednesday, January 9, 2002, at 11:31 , Simon Troup wrote: > > SNIP > Running make test > Can't test without successful make > Running make install > make had returned bad status, install seems impossible > SNIP
Here's what I did. I followed the advice of Elaine -HFB- Ashton and looked at my CPAN Config.pm file in it I found that _MY_ Config.pm file had "blanks" next to important settings like tar, unzip and make. Filling in those blanks fixed CPAN. Here are the steps I took: cd /System/Library/Perl/CPAN sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell At the CPAN shell I typed o conf o conf allowed me to look a my configuration. If you see things like: make then you need to adjust those settings. CPAN can't find make. That's bad. To figure out where these programs are you can type: which make Which should return: /usr/bin/make Mostly the programs listed in o conf should be in /usr/bin but I would check. To edit Config.pm you'll need to do something like this: sudo emacs Config.pm (choose the editor of _your_ choice) You'll now see entries like: 'make' => q[ ], You'll want them to look like this: 'make' => q [/usr/bin/make], Not every entry in my Config.pm has a setting. For instance I don't have lynx, and so there's no entry. Keep two terminals open while you do this. So if here is an entry and you're not sure about it you can do a which #### on the entry to see where/if you have it. Good luck Oh and if you choose emacs CTRL-S will save and CTRL-C will get you out of emacs. -- I didn't spend all that time playing Dungeons & Dragons and not learn a little something about courage
