SOLVED: cpan broken: Writing Makefile for ... NOT OK

Oliver Schoett wrote on 2005-01-27 12:54:

>  Writing Makefile for Statistics::Descriptive
>      -- NOT OK
>  
>
The last line is the clue - it should contain the name of the make 
program before the --.

The problem is that during cpan autoconfiguration, the make program was 
not found and hence the make program name was set empty.  This can also 
be seen during the manual configuration:

   The CPAN module will need a few external programs to work properly.
   Please correct me, if I guess the wrong path for a program. Don't
   panic if you do not have some of them, just press ENTER for those. To
   disable the use of a download program, you can type a space followed
   by ENTER.

   Where is your gzip program? [/bin/gzip] 
   Where is your tar program? [/bin/tar] 
   Where is your unzip program? [/bin/unzip] 
   Warning: make not found in PATH
   Where is your make program? [] 

This appears to be a bug, because I have /bin on the PATH and make in 
/bin, just like the preceding programs (gzip, tar, unzip) that *were* found.

Anyway, manually setting the make program to /bin/make fixed the 
problem.  It would be nice though to understand why the make program was 
not found.

Regards,

Oliver Schoett



 
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