[Chicago-talk] Passing args to cpan

[Jay Strauss]

Thanks Randal.  I never understood what "look" did.

Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn at stonehenge.com>
To: "Chicago.pm chatter" <chicago-talk at mail.pm.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Chicago-talk] Passing args to cpan


> >>>>> "Jay" == Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com> writes:
>
> Jay> But when I run:
> cpan> install Inline::Java
>
> Jay> I get:
> Jay> Welcome to the Inline::Java installation procedure.
>
> Jay> A Java 2 SDK is required to install and use Inline::Java. Please
> Jay> specify your Java 2 SDK installation directory using the J2SDK
> Jay> option to Makefile.PL as such:
>
> Jay>     perl Makefile.PL J2SDK=/path/to/your/j2sdk/installation
> Jay> Running make test
> Jay>   Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't test
> Jay> Running make install
> Jay>   Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't install
>
> Yeah, sucks that some people don't "get it" about Makefile.PL, eh?
>
> Here's how I do that:
>
> cpan> look Inline::Java
> ... % perl Makefile.PL ....
> ... % make all test install
> ... % exit
> cpan>
>
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