Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for Plucene::Plugin::WeightedQueryParser cp WeightedQueryParser.pm blib/lib/Plucene/Plugin/WeightedQueryParser.pm Manifying blib/man3/Plucene::Plugin::WeightedQueryParser.3 PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /home/cpanrun/ia64-lp64/build/5.6.1/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib -I/home/cpanrun/ia64-lp64/build/5.6.1/lib/5.6.1/IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi-64all -I/home/cpanrun/ia64-lp64/build/5.6.1/lib/5.6.1 test.pl Base class package "Plucene::QueryParser" is empty. (Perhaps you need to 'use' the module which defines that package first.) at blib/lib/Plucene/Plugin/WeightedQueryParser.pm line 6 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at blib/lib/Plucene/Plugin/WeightedQueryParser.pm line 6. Compilation failed in require at test.pl line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at test.pl line 3. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255