CentOS - Feb 2007 - CPAN.pm failure to install

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?

Greg Ennis

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