At 09:45 PM 11/14/2002 -0500, Kee Hinckley wrote:
Two possibilities.

>1. You're used to some version of make which does cpan installs?
>
>        sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
>        install xxx

I'm used to ActivePerl's ppm, which looks and feels a lot like ftp.
No need to make anything.  Unix-style makefiles are not common
on Windows these days.

>or what I do
>        perl -MCPAN -e shell
>        get xxx
>        quit
>        cd ~/.cpan/build/yyy
>        perl Makefile.pl
>        make
>        make test
>        sudo make install
>which gives me more control.

Yes, that was what I was trying to do.

>More to the point though, if you haven't installed the developer package, you don't 
>have a make at all--that may be your problem.

Which developer package would that be?

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