One more reason to hate Redhat.
If you know anything about adding perl modules to your perl install, it's really easy.
- download and untar
- perl Makefile.PL
- make
- make install
Well, my "make" command kept failing because of a corrupted Makefile that is created by the "perl Makefile.PL" step. All of the makefile variables were getting screwed up by spurious single quotes.
It took me a while to narrow it down to a Redhat issue but the Oracle gave me an answer.
export LANG=en_US
Redhat 9 sets your LANG variable as "en_US.UTF-8" which evidently perl does not like.