Perl and Module::Install

Tom Hukins tom at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 9 15:48:35 GMT 2004


On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:56:35PM -0700, Aaron Dalton wrote:
> 
> I am pretty new to Perl module porting and for the first time have come 
> across a module that uses Module::Install in Makefile.PL.  Now if I 
> manually do the standard:
> $ perl Makefile.PL
> $ make
> $ make install
> 
> it builds and installs fine.  Obviously the port tree make does 
> something different.  I use the same Makefile as for other ports but 
> when I go to build I get the following error:

Can you post the Makefile you use?  Without showing us what you're
doing, it's hard to know where you're going wrong.

> $ make
> ===>  Configuring for p5-Email-Obfuscate-1.13
> cd Can't open Makefile: No such file or directory.
> ===>  Building for p5-Email-Obfuscate-1.13
> make: cannot open Makefile.

My best guess is that you haven't set PERL_CONFIGURE in your port's
Makefile.

Tom


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