Update-MakeMaker.sh fails - what am I missing?

[Julian Field]

At 08:35 18/05/2004, you wrote:
>On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 20:36, Julian Field wrote:
> > At 11:32 17/05/2004, you wrote:
> > >Well it doen't seem to matter what I set the language to, the compile
> > >still fails and the rpm source rebuild still fails.  So
> > >perl-Convert-Binhex is perl-Brickwall right now.
> >
> > The "make test" instruction on Convert::BinHex will fail. Just ignore it
> > and install it anyway.
>
>Sorry to be dense here, but I have two ways I can try to install this:
>
>1. rpm --rebuild the-source-rpm supplied in the MailScanner tarball
>2. cpan> install ...
>
>The rpm rebuild fails with bzip2 invalid flag problems and the cpan
>method fails to compile.  Changing language variables does not appear to
>be an answer to this.
>
>Is there a third way?

Use method (2) but with "force install" and not just "install". The help in
the CPAN shell tells you about this command.
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Julian Field
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