What is the trick to running dh-make-perl so that it works: Here I said mkdir /usr/local/cpan cd there and said dh-make-perl --cpan File::Find
Now the manpage gives this syntax: dh-make-perl [module_source_dir|--cpan module] Is there special meaning to [module_source_dir| Am I supposed to be a specific directory? I looked at the files installed for perl-base with dpkg -L and none of the directories look any more a module_source_dir than any other. I guess it just means where ever I decide to build things so that was /usr/local/cpan When I ran that command a hefty perl.tar.gz was downloaded with out me asking for it. After it was unpacked I get this message: [...] snipped massive list of unpacked files perl-5.6.1/x2p/walk.c perl-5.6.1/xsutils.c Cannot open /usr/local/cpan/build/perl-5.6.1/Makefile.PL ls /usr/local/cpan/build/perl-5.6.1/M* shows that sure enough its not there. But there is a /usr/local/cpan/build/perl-5.6.1/Makefile.SH It looks suspiciously like thats what need to be run but before doing so I wanted to see if any one knew what the deal was with this.