>How do you typically do the install? MARC::Record is included at the >ActiveState PPM Repository, so it should do these things on a Windows >platform...assuming nmake or some sort of make variant is being used.
At home (on the Mac), I just drop the MARC folder in my site_lib folder in the MacPerl folder (MacPerl adds site_perl to @INC automatically, I believe). This is after I expand the tar.gz files with Stuffit Expander. There used to be an installer.pl for Mac, but it no longer works with the current version of MacPerl (5.8.0a). Since the documentation in MacPerl seems to indicate that it is not compatible with MakeMaker?, drag-drop installation seems to be the easiest alternative. To convert line endings, I use either BBEdit Lite, a 3rd party program, or a script I just wrote that should convert line endings and change the Type and Creator (to TEXT and BBEdit). In Windows, I take the folder from home, convert the line endings from Mac to DOS, and then drop the MARC folder in C:\Perl\site\lib\. This (dragging and dropping) seems to work fine for most stand-alone modules (where a C compiler is not needed). In some cases, I do look at the Makefile.PL, for example with MARC::Charset where it was necessary to create a database file of EastAsian character sets. Of course, once I got that installed (through drag-dropping), it gave a number of errors (when I ran the tests), probably because of my operating system (MacOS 9.2.2) not working well with Unicode? I do generally try running each of the test files when I first install a new module, just to make sure they work ok, but I've not usually bothered to look at how the tests or the Makefile.PL work. This is one reason I haven't tried to distribute my modules through CPAN. ---- Bryan Baldus http://home.inwave.com/eija/ (http://home.inwave.com/eija/readme.htm)
