[CentOS] CPAN.pm failure to install

Mon Feb 19 12:35:41 UTC 2007
Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec at PoMec.Net>

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 09:10 +1100, Gavin Carr wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 05:53:39PM -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > Everyone,
> > 
> > Have a new install of Centos 4.4 with a Supermicro dual processor.  I
> > was trying to install the perl module Astro::Time with CPAN and the
> > initial setup of CPAN suggested a -j3 switch to be used with 'make' on
> > dual processor machines.  I followed the suggestion but when the CPAN
> > module tried to use make it failed with the -j3 switch.  I thought I
> > would uninstall CPAN to start over without the -j3 switch, but could not
> > figure out how this is done.  Any ideas?
> 
> You can just reconfigure the parameters to CPAN. I think the -j3 is the 
> 'make_arg' setting? If so, you'd do something like:
> 
>   perl -MCPAN -e shell
>   o conf
>   o conf make_arg ''
>   o conf commit
> 
> Cheers,
> Gavin
> 
Gavin,

Thanks much.... sure appreciate your help!!

Greg