Re: Anybody here

On 5 Jan 2008, at 14:17, LeRoy DeVries wrote:
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> On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 13:35 +0000, Andy Armstrong wrote:
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>> On 5 Jan 2008, at 13:27, LeRoy DeVries wrote:
>> > I've subscribed to this forum however, I have not seen any traffic.
>> > Anybody here that might be able to help out a newbie
>>
>> Hello LeRoy. What's up?
>
> I have been trying to install some modules (ie threads,  
> threads::share) etc and I get the following error
>
> Running install for module 'threads'
> Running make for J/JD/JDHEDDEN/threads-1.67.tar.gz
>   Has already been unwrapped into directory /home/ldevries/.cpan/ 
> build/threads-1.67-2t_tsK
> Could not make: Unknown error
> Running make test
>   Can't test without successful make
> Running make install
>   Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
>
> Whats the best way to proceed? Should I delete everything and start  
> over and if I do what do I delete?


(I've added the list address back in)

It sounds as if threads and threads::share previously got some test  
errors in the same cpan session. If you quit from cpan, restart it and  
then attempt the install again you may see the test errors. That's the  
information that we need to diagnose the problem.

Another thing you could try is

cpan> look threads

That'll unpack the threads distribution and open a command shell in  
the directory where it was unpacked. Then you can manually attempt:

$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make test
$ sudo make install

(only do each step if the previous one succeeded)

I've just tried that here and I notice that threads needs you to have  
a C compiler. Might that be the reason why it failed to build? Do you  
have a C compiler installed?

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Hexten