Re: DBI doesn't seem to build on install?

"H.Merijn Brand" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.sybase.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 16:49:29 +0000, Steven McGowan
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Looks good
>  
>     I see you're using perl 5.008008 on darwin-thread-multi-2level, okay.
>     Remember to actually *read* the README file!
>     Use  'make' to build the software (dmake or nmake on Windows).
>     Then 'make test' to execute self tests.
>     Then 'make install' to install the DBI and then delete this working
>     directory before unpacking and building any DBD::* drivers.
>  
> Writing Makefile for DBI
>     -- NOT OK

So, you are unable to write a Makefile. All bets are off after this
point.

Before you clean up the mess it left, try some manual intervention

$ cd ~/.cpan/build/DBI*
$ perl Makefile.PL

and see if that tells you *why* it cannot create a Makefile

> Running make test
>   Can't test without successful make
> Running make install
>   make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

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