I've tried asking for help on various forums for this, but no one seems to know, so I'm falling back to p5p: $ uname -a Linux giles 2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686 #1 SMP Sat May 21 17:39:42 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Trying to install a Perl 5.14.1 from source (anything >5.12.0 has this same problem for me). Here's what I try: wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JE/JESSE/perl-5.14.1.tar.gz tar -zxvf perl-5.14.1.tar.gz cd perl-5.14.1 sh Configure -d make And eventually it fails with: Finished prerequisites of target file `ExtUtils/xsubpp'. Must remake target `ExtUtils/xsubpp'. make[1]: *** No rule to make target `ExtUtils/xsubpp', needed by `attributes.c'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/perl-5.14.1/ext/attributes' Unsuccessful make(ext/attributes): code=512 at make_ext.pl line 463. Any thoughts as to how I can get past this? I've tried with perlbrew and it fails in the same ways. My system has 5.12.3 installed so I know it must be possible and I can install 5.8.X without a problem (by hand and with perlbrew). Here's the full output of configure: http://pastebin.com/RkFdj8eb And here's the full output of make: http://pastebin.com/NJdd7X21 TIA, -- Michael Peters Plus Three, LPThread Next