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check your version number (Score:2)

by hfb (74)

and then do the following in the build dir. 'make manifest' and then 'make disttest' which should test your distribution for install. You should also use 'make dist' for upload to cpan. You might find some of the information in http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/H/HF/HFB/grok-cpan.pdf helpful.
Get your hands on the Perl Cookbook (Score:2, Informative)

by WebDragon (1204)

The Cookbook was the first piece of information I got my hands on that explained how to 'do it' clearly enough that I was able to put together Time::Elapse [webdragon.net] in a CPAN-ready distribution.

I don't know if it has everything you need to resolve the problem in its descriptions, but it helped me get started with far less pain than I thought there would be. :-)
release (Score:2)

by pudge (1)

Also try release, from brian d foy, which I use for all my stuff. Automates everything, and flexible (Ken Williams added Module::Release to it, so you can write your own release scripts easily).
- Re:release (Score:2)
  
  by djberg96 (2603)
  Ok, didn't know about that one. In the end I think the problems were:
  
  Forgot a MANIFEST
  
  Tried to nest the module into a different direcotry instead of keeping it in the toplevel directory
  
  Never bothered to do 'make install' to make sure that it worked.
  
  I'll keep your suggestions in mind for next time - thanks!