On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 10:01:44AM +0000, Walid Haider wrote: > >> That sounds pretty broken. > >> What's in /root/.cpan/build ? > You are absolutely right, I went ahead and removed the build directory before > answering your question. I'm sorry. > > >You can also always manually download HTML::Mason from something like > >http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Mason > >untar it and perl Makefile.PL and see if you get a better error message by > >doing it manually. > Regarding this point, I tried what you suggested and this is the error > message I am getting: > > [root@rt-test HTML-Mason-1.48]# perl Makefile.PL > Can't locate Module/Build/Compat.pm in @INC (@INC contains: inc > /usr/local/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 > /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl > /usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0 > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at Makefile.PL line 4. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 4.
I bet your Module::Build is too old and your CPAN.pm is too old to notice that your Module::Build is too old. Try cpan Module::Build cpan HTML::Mason -kevin
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