Archive::Zip missing pod2man?

I'm trying to install Archive::Zip, and receive the error that pod2man can't
 be
found:

CPAN.pm: Going to build N/NE/NEDKONZ/Archive-Zip-1.13.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good

Warning: I could not locate your pod2man program. Please make sure,
your pod2man program is in your PATH before you execute 'make'

Writing Makefile for Archive::Zip
Makefile:88: *** missing separator.  Stop.
/usr/bin/make  -- NOT OK
Running make test
Can't test without successful make
Running make install
make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

cpan>

I've done the obvious:

[defang@tolstoy defang]$ echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/
usr/
local/scripts
[defang@tolstoy defang]$ type pod2man
pod2man is /usr/bin/pod2man

It seems to work...

[defang@tolstoy MIME]$ pod2man Tools.pm >~/Tools.1
less ~/Tools.1

Tools(3)              User Contributed Perl Documentation             Tools(
3)

NAME
MIME-tools - modules for parsing (and creating!) MIME entities

SYNOPSIS
Hereās some pretty basic code for parsing a MIME message, and out-
putting its decoded components to a given directory:

... but cpan just can't find it.  I even tried deleting it, bringing a copy
 in
from another system, and installing it in a different directory in the path 
-
no such luck.

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks much,


--
tim boyer
tim@denmantire.com

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 02:11:35 GMT, Jim Keenan <jkeen_via_google@yahoo.com>
wrote:

<snip>

>
>Me, I'm not that brave.  I'm going to bed instead.
>
>Jim Keenan

A man after my own heart... :)  but I'll see what I can see.  We're quickly
plumbing the limits of my technical depth, however.


--
tim boyer
tim@denmantire.com

Tim Boyer wrote:

>
> A man after my own heart... :)  but I'll see what I can see.  We're quickl
y
> plumbing the limits of my technical depth, however.
>
>

If it's just a matter of getting Archive::Zip installed you could try
the ol' fashioned way - download source, extract, run commands manually
- those commands normally being 'perl Makefile.PL', 'make', 'make test'
and 'make install' (but check the README that comes with the source).

If that works then at least you'll know the problem lies with your CPAN
installation itself, and not the EU::* modules.

Cheers,
Rob

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On 12 Sep 2004 20:30:09 -0700, jkeen_via_google@yahoo.com (Jim Keenan) wrote
:

>Tim Boyer <tim@denmantire.com> wrote in message news:<kui9k0p82t6n6n7c97jjl
4jtrdlkbktncr@4ax.com>... 
>[snip] 
>
>This is probably *not* the answer to your problem, but at least it's a
>rule-out:  Are you trying to have cpan install this module relative to
>a Perl executable located in /usr/bin or one in /usr/local/bin?  If
>you have 2 different versions of Perl installed in 2 different
>locations, there's a chance that 'make' is not finding a 'pod2man'
>relative to the current executable.
>
>As I said, this is probably not your problem, but I had a similar
>problem with the 'cpan' utility once I installed 5.8.4 alongside
>5.8.0.  In that case, I had to manually edit the newer version of
>'cpan' to get its path working properly.  So it's at last worth ruling
>out.
>

I'll take a look this morning.  Thanks!

>Note:  I doubt this has anything to do with Archive::Zip per se.  Have
>you gotten this problem with other attempts at installing from CPAN?
>
>jimk

Nope; that's the _really_ weird part.  CPAN's been running fine here forever
.
I installed mimedefang over the wend; everything went without a hitch.  I
was installing some of the optional modules, like Unix::Syslog, and they all
just slid right in - except for the Archive::Zip module!

Weird...


--
tim boyer
tim@denmantire.com

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:51:21 +1000, Sisyphus <kalinaubears@iinet.net.au> wro
te:

>Tim Boyer wrote:
> 
>
>If it's just a matter of getting Archive::Zip installed you could try
>the ol' fashioned way - download source, extract, run commands manually
>- those commands normally being 'perl Makefile.PL', 'make', 'make test'
>and 'make install' (but check the README that comes with the source).
>
>If that works then at least you'll know the problem lies with your CPAN
>installation itself, and not the EU::* modules.
>
>Cheers,
>Rob

You mean, do it *gasp* the old-fashioned way?  That's an excellent idea, and
 it
shows how lazy I've become that I didn't even think of it.  I'll try it
tonight.  Thanks much!


--
tim boyer
tim@denmantire.com

Jim Keenan <jkeen_via_google@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<rrs1d.2483$VV2.929@trndny06>
..
> [snip]
> If you are brave and stout of heart, you can peer into the eternals of
> MakeMaker,

Of course, what I *meant* to say was, "you can peer into the
*in*ternals of MakeMaker, ..."

But what if they're the same thing?!!!

Jim Keenan

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:51:21 +1000, Sisyphus <kalinaubears@iinet.net.au> wro
te:

>Tim Boyer wrote:
> 
>
>If it's just a matter of getting Archive::Zip installed you could try
>the ol' fashioned way - download source, extract, run commands manually
>- those commands normally being 'perl Makefile.PL', 'make', 'make test'
>and 'make install' (but check the README that comes with the source).
>
>If that works then at least you'll know the problem lies with your CPAN
>installation itself, and not the EU::* modules.
>
>Cheers,
>Rob

Rob, check _this_ out:

[tim@tolstoy src]$ cd Archive-Zip-1.13/
[tim@tolstoy Archive-Zip-1.13]$ perl Makefile.PL

Warning: I could not locate your pod2man program. Please make sure,
your pod2man program is in your PATH before you execute 'make'

Writing Makefile for Archive::Zip

[tim@tolstoy Archive-Zip-1.13]$ type pod2man
pod2man is /usr/bin/pod2man

Damn!  It's there, it really is...


--
tim boyer
tim@denmantire.com

Tim Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:51:21 +1000, Sisyphus <kalinaubears@iinet.net.au> w
rote:
>
> 
>
>
> Rob, check _this_ out:
>
> [tim@tolstoy src]$ cd Archive-Zip-1.13/
> [tim@tolstoy Archive-Zip-1.13]$ perl Makefile.PL
>
> Warning: I could not locate your pod2man program. Please make sure,
>          your pod2man program is in your PATH before you execute 'make'
>
> Writing Makefile for Archive::Zip
>
> [tim@tolstoy Archive-Zip-1.13]$ type pod2man
> pod2man is /usr/bin/pod2man
>
> Damn!  It's there, it really is...
>
>

This seems to have cropped up a few times (especially wrt Redhat 9). I'm
sure I've seen it discussed somewhere, but I'm damned if I could find
anything useful. See if you can Google up a solution. Try searching for
"I could not locate your pod2man" (*including* the quotes).

Cheers,
Rob

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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:42:33 +1000, Sisyphus <kalinaubears@iinet.net.au> wro
te:

>Tim Boyer wrote: 
>
>This seems to have cropped up a few times (especially wrt Redhat 9). I'm
>sure I've seen it discussed somewhere, but I'm damned if I could find
>anything useful. See if you can Google up a solution. Try searching for
>"I could not locate your pod2man" (*including* the quotes).
>
>Cheers,
>Rob

Hmmm, about 240 hits.  Looks like I'm not alone. :)  I'll start reading.
Thanks, Rob!


--
tim boyer
tim@denmantire.com

Sisyphus <kalinaubears@iinet.net.au> wrote in message news:<41494519$0$24410$5a62ac22@per-q
v1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>... 
> Try searching for
> "I could not locate your pod2man" (*including* the quotes).
>
As I pointed out in another posting, this appears to come from the
older version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker which the OP is using.  The
language does not appear in the most recent version of EU::MM
available from CPAN.

jimk