Sykes, Brian wrote:
>  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.
>  
>  Checking if your kit is complete...
>  Looks good
>  Writing Makefile for libxml-perl

I'm guessing it's trying to install libxml-perl due to a dependency on 
XML::DOM.  The latest version of XML::DOM is no longer bundled in 
libxml-perl so you might be able to install it directly via PPM:

   ppm install XML-DOM

>      -- OK
>  Running make test
>  'test' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>  operable program or batch file.

Do you actually have a 'make' utility installed?  One cause of this 
error might be if the CPAN.pm config for make was ' '.  Then the command 
line would expand to ' test' instead of 'make test'.

See this entry for details of using CPAN.pm on Windows:

   http://perl-xml.sourceforge.net/faq/#win32_cpan

Once you've installed nmake as described in this document, you may need 
to reinitialise your CPAN.pm config with:

   C:\>  perl -MCPAN -e shell
   cpan>  o conf init

This time through, make sure you define 'nmake' as your make program.

Regards
Grant


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