Hi, I'm getting an error when trying to install Text::Diff with the CPAN module. The specific error is:

*snip*

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Warning: prerequisite Algorithm::Diff 0 not found.

Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code.

It is recommended that you install perl in a standard location before
building extensions. Some precompiled versions of perl do not contain
these header files, so you cannot build extensions. In such a case,
please build and install your perl from a fresh perl distribution. It
usually solves this kind of problem.

(You get this message, because MakeMaker could not find "C:\xampp\perl\lib\CORE\perl.h")
Running make test
Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't test
Running make install
Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't install

cpan>

*snip ends*

I am invoking CPAN.pm as follows:

perl -MCPAN -e shell

I get the same error message when trying the following with various modules which I download by hand (rather than with CPAN.pm),

perl Makefile.PL

but in those cases I can install without error by using this more specific command:

perl Makefile.PL PERL_SRC=D:\app\xampp\perl

I would do the same thing with CPAN.pm, except I'm not sure how to tell it to pass the option on to Makefile.PL. Any ideas how to do this? BTW, CPANPLUS has the same issue.

Perl: 5.8.0, ActiveState Build 806, with various updated individual modules
OS: MSWin32
Perl Directory: D:\app\xampp\perl
$CPAN::VERSION 1.61


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