Perl MCPAN can’t write Makefile!?!?

[hotmop]

In attempting to install SpamAssassin per Joel’s article, I’m getting some problems with the perl CPAN installs. It says it can’t write the Makefile and then fails all other steps past that. Yet it seems to write the file fine. I’m running perl with sudo and also after su’ing to root. I’ve even changed the ownership of the directories and files to root to be sure.

Article:
https://www.afp548.com/Articles/mail/postfix-sa.html

Trying this command:

install Archive::Tar Archive::Zip Compress::Zlib Convert::UUlib MIME::Base64 \
MIME::Parser Mail::Internet Net::Server Digest::MD5 IO::Stringy Time::HiRes \
Unix::Syslog Digest::SHA1 Mail::SpamAssassin

or subset of the above:

install Compress::Zlib

I get:

cpan> install Compress::Zlib
Running install for module Compress::Zlib
Running make for P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-1.33.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
Checksum for /Users/admin/.cpan/sources/authors/id/P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-1.33.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /Users/admin/.cpan/build for sizes
Compress-Zlib-1.33/
Compress-Zlib-1.33/zlib-src/
Compress-Zlib-1.33/zlib-src/inftrees.c
...<snip>...
Compress-Zlib-1.33/MANIFEST
Compress-Zlib-1.33/ANNOUNCE
Compress-Zlib-1.33/fallback.h
Removing previously used /Users/admin/.cpan/build/Compress-Zlib-1.33

  CPAN.pm: Going to build P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-1.33.tar.gz

Parsing config.in...
Building Zlib enabled
Looks Good.
Up/Downgrade complete.
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Compress::Zlib
    -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

[hotmop]

BTW, this is on 10.3 Server. XCode installed.

[molsted]

I’ve experienced the same problem and I had no problem installing them by hand.
perl Makefile.PL
make test
make install

Has anyone got a solution to this?

/Molsted

[Anonymous]

I tried hand installing but get the following error message. Is there any way i can install the perl module MIME Base64

# make
rm -f blib/arch/auto/MIME/Base64/Base64.bundle
LD_RUN_PATH=”” MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib Base64.o -o blib/arch/auto/MIME/Base64/Base64.bundle
ld: can’t locate file for: -lbundle1.o
make: *** [blib/arch/auto/MIME/Base64/Base64.bundle] Error 1

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