Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for Class::StructTemplate cp lib/Class/StructTemplate.pm blib/lib/Class/StructTemplate.pm cp manager2.pm blib/lib/Class/manager2.pm cp lib/Class/Persistent/StructTemplate.pm blib/lib/Class/Persistent/StructTemplate.pm cp manager.pm blib/lib/Class/manager.pm cp lib/Class/Persistent/Plugin/MySQL.pm blib/lib/Class/Persistent/Plugin/MySQL.pm PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /Users/cpanrun/pristine/5.8.7/bin/perl "-Iblib/lib" "-Iblib/arch" test.pl Cannot connect to database: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)! at blib/lib/Class/Persistent/Plugin/MySQL.pm line 24 Class::Persistent::Plugin::MySQL::new('Class::Persistent::Plugin::MySQL', 'dbi:mysql:database=try;host=localhost', 'root', 'heeik0') called at blib/lib/Class/Persistent/StructTemplate.pm line 40 Class::Persistent::StructTemplate::attributes('Class::Persistent::Plugin::MySQL', 'ARRAY(0x1801f80)', 'name', 'user', 'passwd') called at manager.pm line 6 require manager.pm called at test.pl line 1 main::BEGIN() called at manager.pm line 0 eval {...} called at manager.pm line 0 Compilation failed in require at test.pl line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at test.pl line 1. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255