Re: trouble installing XML::LibXML

you might want to try building it from the actual distro if you're using the
Fink libxml libraries, i know that with XML::Parser, i have to actually set
the path to expat in the Makefile.pl file to get it to build with my
darwinports expat.

hth,

- brian


> Hi all,
> 
> I need to re-install XML::LibXML after a harddisk failure, and I can't
> remember how I did it the first time around. Here is how I tried it:
> First, I installed the LibXML and LibXML2 libraries using Fink. Then, I
> ran:
> 
> sudo cpan -i XML::LibXML
> 
> First it looked good, but at several points in the process got a message
> of the following type:
> 
> 
> Writing Makefile for XML::NamespaceSupport
>     -- NOT OK
> Running make test
>   Can't test without successful make
> Running make install
>   make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
> 
> 
> I had trouble with "make" trying to install another software (remind),
> too. Maybe my unix system is broken somehow? That would be strange since
> it is pretty much a fresh installation.
> 
> Does anybody know what might be the problem?
> 
> Ingo