which version of Mac OS X are you using? 10.0? Also, look thru the old msgs of this look for relevant posts. here is one:
http://archive.develooper.com/macosx%40perl.org/msg01044.html and a bit more context before the error occurence would help us out. On Wednesday, January 9, 2002, at 11:31 PM, Simon Troup wrote: > Hello, > > I keep getting this error when trying to install modules with > CPAN (happens > with nearly all of them). > > cc1obj: Invalid option `-flat_namespace' > make: *** [Perl.o] Error 1 > /usr/bin/make -- NOT OK > Running make test > Can't test without successful make > Running make install > make had returned bad status, install seems impossible > > I have the developer tools installed and have searched the archive for > similar reports and while there have been quite a few cpan > problems none was > the same as this. > > My apologies in advance if I have made a horrible oversight, I'm > an OSX and > Perl newbie. > > Regards > > Zim > >