what does that command do? I thought that it installed what you compiled
with make. but at as I am working through linux from scratch I get to perl
and it says:

Only a few of the utilities and libraries, need to be installed at this
time:
cp -v perl cpan/podlators/pod2man /tools/bin
mkdir -pv /tools/lib/perl5/5.18.2
cp -Rv lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/5.18.2

so is it installing the files with cp?  is 'make install' just another way
to say 'cp'?
:-)~MIKE~(-: