Am trying to install some Perl modules for creating/modifying mobipocket files. Perl version returns 5.8.8, which is apparently correct. On trying any install package I get perfectly correct ftp &c messages from CPAN, followed by a failed make with no explanation. The following is the final set of messages from the Palm::PDB package: "WARNING: LICENSE is not a known parameter. Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good 'LICENSE' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name. Writing Makefile for Palm -- NOT OK Running make test Can't test without successful make Running make install make had returned bad status, install seems impossible" so it apparently happens perfectly correctly up to the make pass, which chokes it. Regards, Ruth
On 26 Apr 19:53, Ruth Bygrave wrote:
Am trying to install some Perl modules for creating/modifying mobipocket files. Perl version returns 5.8.8, which is apparently correct. On trying any install package I get perfectly correct ftp &c messages from CPAN, followed by a failed make with no explanation. The following is the final set of messages from the Palm::PDB package: "WARNING: LICENSE is not a known parameter. Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good 'LICENSE' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name. Writing Makefile for Palm -- NOT OK Running make test Can't test without successful make Running make install make had returned bad status, install seems impossible"
so it apparently happens perfectly correctly up to the make pass, which chokes it.
Could be that the version of MakeMaker is out of date. Either way, which distribution? Debian has a package for those modules - libpalm-perl, which if it's not in Ubuntu's main repositories will surely be in universe. If you really do need to build it from CPAN then I suggest that you also get the latest version of MakeMaker from CPAN too. Cheers, -- Brett Parker
On 27 Apr 2008, at 14:46, Brett Parker wrote:
On 26 Apr 19:53, Ruth Bygrave wrote:
so it apparently happens perfectly correctly up to the make pass, which chokes it.
Could be that the version of MakeMaker is out of date.
Either way, which distribution? Debian has a package for those modules - libpalm-perl, which if it's not in Ubuntu's main repositories will surely be in universe. Managed to find libpalm-perl somewhere else, but I haven't got some of the other modules.
My distro is Darwin (OS X), so I'm not that clear about which things to download.
If you really do need to build it from CPAN then I suggest that you also get the latest version of MakeMaker from CPAN too.
The damn thing keeps reporting it's got the newest version of MakeMaker. I'm not sure I believe it. Regards, Ruth
On 27 Apr 2008, at 9:48 pm, Ruth Bygrave wrote:
My distro is Darwin (OS X), so I'm not that clear about which things to download.
Ruth, If you're on OS X, I would suggest using MacPorts [0]. This makes installing perl modules as easy as doing $ sudo port install p5-net-ssh-perl (for example) 0: http://www.macports.org/ -- David Reynolds david@reynoldsfamily.org.uk
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