[techtalk] perl modules

[Kristina Pfaff-Harris]

On Sat, 20 May 2000, Lori wrote:

> Can some of you perl ppl out there point me in the right direction?  
> I decided I would like to install a perl module I downloaded from
> CPAN, that for some reason did not come with my install:
> Apache::Debug.  Once before I just stuck a .pm file to use on an ISP's
> server, no problem.  But this, I am trying to install on my own
> server, and in the tarball was a file 'Makefile.PL' with this in it:

With the newer Perl modules, after you un-tar/un-gzip the package, you do:

 perl Makefile.PL
 make
 make test
 make install

The first will actually create the Makefile for "make."  After that, you
shouldn't get the "no target" message. :)

Kristina