Bizarre Install Problem

[Matthew K Bowman]

/me not having a successful day

now I get this:

cpan> install Archive::Zip
Running install for module Archive::Zip
Running make for N/NE/NEDKONZ/Archive-Zip-1.09.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Checksum for
/root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/N/NE/NEDKONZ/Archive-Zip-1.09.tar.gz
 ok
Scanning cache /root/.cpan/build for sizes
Archive-Zip-1.09/
Archive-Zip-1.09/t/
Archive-Zip-1.09/t/testex.t
Archive-Zip-1.09/t/testUpdate.t
Archive-Zip-1.09/t/testMemberRead.t
Archive-Zip-1.09/t/testTree.t
Archive-Zip-1.09/t/test.t
Archive-Zip-1.09/t/common.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/Changes
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/mfh.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/updateZip.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/unzipAll.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/extract.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/readScalar.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/copy.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/zip.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/zipGrep.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/calcSizes.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/ziprecent.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/zipcheck.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/updateTree.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/writeScalar.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/selfex.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/zipinfo.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/ziptest.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/mailZip.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/examples/writeScalar2.pl
Archive-Zip-1.09/docs/
Archive-Zip-1.09/docs/Archive-Zip.pdf
Archive-Zip-1.09/docs/appnote.iz
Archive-Zip-1.09/docs/Appnote.txt
Archive-Zip-1.09/docs/ideas.txt
Archive-Zip-1.09/docs/Archive-Zip.ps
Archive-Zip-1.09/MANIFEST
Archive-Zip-1.09/TODO
Archive-Zip-1.09/crc32
Archive-Zip-1.09/META.yml
Archive-Zip-1.09/lib/
Archive-Zip-1.09/lib/Archive/
Archive-Zip-1.09/lib/Archive/Zip/
Archive-Zip-1.09/lib/Archive/Zip/BufferedFileHandle.pm
Archive-Zip-1.09/lib/Archive/Zip/MockFileHandle.pm
Archive-Zip-1.09/lib/Archive/Zip/MemberRead.pm
Archive-Zip-1.09/lib/Archive/Zip/Tree.pm
Archive-Zip-1.09/lib/Archive/Zip/FAQ.pod
Archive-Zip-1.09/lib/Archive/Zip.pod
Archive-Zip-1.09/lib/Archive/Zip.pm
Archive-Zip-1.09/INSTALL
Archive-Zip-1.09/Makefile.PL
Archive-Zip-1.09/README
Removing previously used /root/.cpan/build/Archive-Zip-1.09

  CPAN.pm: Going to build N/NE/NEDKONZ/Archive-Zip-1.09.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good

Warning: I could not locate your pod2man program. Please make sure,
         your pod2man program is in your PATH before you execute 'make'

Writing Makefile for Archive::Zip
Makefile:88: *** missing separator.  Stop.
  /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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: "Matthew K Bowman" <mkbowman at neo.rr.com>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: Bizarre Install Problem


> At 14:49 05/03/2004, you wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I was able to update to 4.28.5-2 on one Redhat 9 box. I then copied the
> >rpm.tar to another Redhat 9 box and having run install.sh it gives
> >
> >RPM build errors:
> >     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.46484 (%build)
> >
> >Missing file
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/perl-Archive-Zip-1.09-2.noarch.rpm.
> >Maybe it did not build correctly?
> >
> >Any ideas as to the cause and how to fix?
>
> That output error is a sign that it is 4.28.5-1 and not -2.
> Recheck what you did.
> --
> Julian Field
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>
> PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
>