The t(ar) command of instmodsh does not work on freebsd4.6. I think this patch should be more portable: Regards, Slaven --- bleedperl/lib/ExtUtils/instmodsh Wed Nov 5 00:05:05 2003 +++ bleedperl2/lib/ExtUtils/instmodsh Tue Nov 18 22:02:12 2003 @@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ while (1) { $fh->print(join("\n", $Inst->files($module))); $fh->close(); - system("tar cvf $file -I $tmp"); + system("tar cvfI $file $tmp"); + # or: system("tar -cv -f $file -I $tmp"); unlink($tmp); last CASE; } -- Slaven Rezic - slaven@rezic.de tktimex - project time manager http://sourceforge.net/projects/ptktools/Thread Next