[Bioperl-l] Errors with Bioperl installation

[Chris Fields]

On May 14, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Sendu Bala wrote:

> Scott Cain wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, since I haven't tried this in a long time, can
>> all the prereqs be installed without make as well?  If so, that is
>> excellent.
>
> Oh, I've no idea. They'd all need to use Module::Build as well. It's  
> within the realms of possibility?
>
> But anyway, BioPerl would still get installed even if some deps  
> failed to install due to lack of make.

I think the makefile is just a passthrough, generated with  
distribution building ('./Build dist'):

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/CJFIELDS/BioPerl-1.6.0/Makefile.PL

I don't think there is a flag to run automatic installation of all  
prereqs, though it could be added in.

chris