On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:20:50PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: >> $ make perl >> >> make[1]: *** No rule to make target >> `/usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/CORE/libperl.a', needed by `perl'. Stop. >> >> $ dpkg -S libperl.a >> libperl-dev: /usr/lib/libperl.a Yes, this is a bug. MakeMaker needs to be patched to deal with the location of libperl.a on Debian systems. --bod