My mistake, you are quite correct. I have got it successfully installed
now. Thanks for the help.
root@goliath:~/XML-Entities# perl Makefile.PL
WARNING: LICENSE is not a known parameter.
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
'LICENSE' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name.
Writing Makefile for XML::Entities
root@goliath:~/XML-Entities# make
/usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" bin/download-entities.pl
lib/XML/Entities/Data.pm
Downloading the list of documents
Downloading the documents
Parsing the documents... Done
cp lib/XML/Entities/Data.pod blib/lib/XML/Entities/Data.pod
cp lib/XML/Entities/Data.pm blib/lib/XML/Entities/Data.pm
cp lib/XML/Entities.pm blib/lib/XML/Entities.pm
cp bin/download-entities.pl blib/script/download-entities.pl
/usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::MY" -e "MY->fixin(shift)"
blib/script/download-entities.pl
Manifying blib/man3/XML::Entities::Data.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/XML::Entities.3pm
lib/XML/Entities.pm:92: Unknown command paragraph "=encoding utf8"
root@goliath:~/XML-Entities# make install
Installing /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML/Entities.pm
Installing /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML/Entities/Data.pod
Installing /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML/Entities/Data.pm
Installing /usr/local/man/man3/XML::Entities::Data.3pm
Installing /usr/local/man/man3/XML::Entities.3pm
Installing /usr/bin/download-entities.pl
Writing /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.7/auto/XML/Entities/.packlist
Appending installation info to /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.7/perllocal.pod
On Wed Apr 23 07:59:21 2008, sixtease@cpan.org wrote:
Show quoted text> If you're talking about the q/unknown command paragraph "=encoding
> utf8"/, I get that message myself and it's just a warning from the pod
> processor, which doesn't accept the =encoding command despite it is
> documented in perlpod. It shouldn't stop you from building the module
> and actually shouldn't have any effect since there are currently no
> above-ascii characters in the documentation.
>
> Or am I wrong and you can't build it?