No make in the CPAN's shell?

English Programming/Scripting
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I’m trying to install the Net::MySQL with the CPAN shell but it keeps complaining that it can not use make, when I first ran the CPAN shell it did not ask me for the location of make or anything else that it needed which I though was weird because the last time I used CPAN, was on a different machine and was with openSUSE 10.3, I had to tell it the location for several things. I’m using the perl version that came with openSUSE 11.0 with the patch installed, a.k.a. perl-5.10.0-37.4, is there a way to reconfigure the CPAN shell (also would like to specify more mirrors for it) or fix this?

Thank you for your time

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Hi
You can edit the /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/CPAN/Config.pm or remove it and
it will start afresh, just select no at the first question.

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Hi
Opps, forgot to add at the cpan shell you can use this as well;


o conf make /usr/bin/make
o conf commit

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Malcolm wrote:

>

[quote=“Malcolm”]

> Hi
> You can edit the /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/CPAN/Config.pm or remove it and
> it will start afresh, just select no at the first question.
> [/QUOTE]
> Hi
> Opps, forgot to add at the cpan shell you can use this as well;
>


> o conf make /usr/bin/make
> o conf commit
>

>
Thanks, it might be fewer steps to just edit the config file.

“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.” Karl Popper

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To reconfigure cpan type:

o conf init

in the cpan shell.

For some cpan options type:

?

at the prompt.

KennV