partial revert to 1.47 in order to work with an old perl 5.10.1 With old ExtUtils::MakeMaker, AUTHOR takes a string/number not a ARRAY reference. See http://api.metacpan.org/source/RUZ/GDGraph-1.48/CHANGES Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad Index: b/Makefile.PL =================================================================== --- a/Makefile.PL +++ b/Makefile.PL @@ -19,11 +19,7 @@ ($] >= 5.005 ? ('ABSTRACT' => 'Produces charts with GD', - 'AUTHOR' => [ - 'Martien Verbruggen ', - 'Benjamin Warfield ', - 'Ruslan Zakirov ', - ] + 'AUTHOR' => 'Martien Verbruggen ', ):() ),