On 5/15/08, Anthony Kent <tonykent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have just tried the CPAN shell and unfortunately got exactly the same failure messages on the make test phase: ... > I suspect that the gcc library is not being found/declared properly, but I'm not sure how to prove this. Try setting an environment variable to the desired gcc: export CC='<path-to-gcc>' And make sure LD_LIBRARY_PATH has the path to your locally-installed libs. Then remake the module's Makefile.PL and retry the build. -Tom P.S. Are you locked into that old gcc version? P.P.S. As administrator, you sure have some ugly paths on that host--that may be the source of some of the problems (later if not now) if there are years of old cruft hangin around--especially the way some Perl packages are cavalier about where modules are installed and how Perl's @INC is configured.