CPAN not playing nice…

Just been trying to set some modules up using the CPAN shell on my server and was having some terrible trouble with modules all failing to make, with no real error message. All that was reported was “Not OK”.

So I hit the console and tried to manually make one of the modules and that worked fine. After some more digging I discovered that for some reason the config variable telling cpan where the make binary wasn’t set, so a simple “o conf make /usr/bin/make” and now everything’s hunky dory.

Silly CPAN.