[COLUG] how to install Perl packages

[Rick Troth]

folks ...

Can someone give me advice on installing Perl packages?
I either need to install a certain package under Perl
or I need to deactivate the thing which is calling for it.
Either solution would suit me just fine in this case.

I'm not deep into Perl, but I do most SW upgrades from source.
Packages which follow the usual recipe are all over the map
in terms of what they require (either for build or for run time).
So I was trying to upgrade JPilot, and the newest source I could find
for that package requires XML::Parser for what appears to be I18N.
I'd prefer to simply turn off I18N, but it's not clear that I can.

Now ... I've got Perl 5 of various levels, one being 5.0.7.
There is a Pod::Parser which does not appear to be the right thing.
I found XML::Parser, but have not figured out how to drop that in
in such a way that Perl and/or 'configure' will find it and use it.

I could also upgrade Perl if XML::Parser is now included.
Somehow I suspect that an upgrade of Perl will not help this.

Turning off the "intltool" in JPilot did not help,
at least not with the simplicity of

	./configure --without-intltool

Error message is still

	checking for XML::Parser...
		configure: error: XML::Parser perl module
		is required for intltool

Thanks.

-- R;