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.

This is all on 10.3 Server with XCode installed.

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

Trying this command:
[code:1:4a92a1ae35]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[/code:1:4a92a1ae35]

or subset of the above:
[code:1:4a92a1ae35]install Compress::Zlib[/code:1:4a92a1ae35]

I get:
[code:1:4a92a1ae35]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
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[hotmop]

Joel,

Thanks for the reply….

I logged in as the “admin” user. That user is “blessed” as an admin under Workgroup manager.

I launched “sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell” and gave pw. Gave above failure on writing Makefile

I then did “su root” and auth’ed. launched perl -MCPAN and did again.

Same failure.

Really wierd.

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