On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Sykes, Brian wrote:

>  I may be posting to the wrong group with this type of
>  newbiew question.  If so let me know.
> 
>  I am trying to install the Syndication::NewsML module on a
>  Win 2000 machine running ActiveState Perl v5.8. It doesn't
>  appear that there is a PPM package for this module so I
>  have tried installing it per the readme instructions.  In
>  the Readme document it says that it can be installed from
>  CPAN with the following command: install
>  Syndication::NewsML It does not appear to install
>  correctly with the following errors in the output below.
> 
>  Can anyone help a newbie Perler get this NewsML module
>  installed?  Thanks.
> 
>  Here is some of the output I get:
> 
>  Checking if your kit is complete...
>  Looks good
>  Writing Makefile for libxml-perl
>      -- OK
>  Running make test
>  'test' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>  operable program or batch file.
>     test -- NOT OK
>  Running make install
>    make test had returned bad status, won't install without force

It's looking for a "test" program, which isn't normally
available on Win32. Are you using a "make" utility from
cygwin or some such? If so, and you're building under
ActivePerl, this won't work out of the box - it's easier to
get Microsoft's nmake (available for free - see the
ActivePerl documentation for details on how to get and
install it).

It might make the installation easier to first install
via ppm, where available, the dependencies required
by Syndication-NewsML.

-- 
best regards,
randy kobes
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