Can't install perl quote modules

[Donald Allen]

On my usual Slackware (13.37, 64-bit) system, I have 2.4.7 installed, which
I did by downloading the slackbuild from slackbuilds.org, changing the
version in the gnucash.Slackbuild script to 2.4.7, and downloading the
source tarball from gnucash.org. It built normally, producing a slackware
package, which I then installed. It works fine, except I cannot get the perl
online quote-fetching modules to install properly. Here's what I'm seeing:

  CPAN.pm: Going to build E/EC/ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz

Warning: Prerequisite 'HTML::TreeBuilder => 0' for
'ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz' failed when processing
'JFEARN/HTML-Tree-4.2.tar.gz' with 'make_test => NO'. Continuing, but
chances to succeed are limited.
Warning: Prerequisite 'Crypt::SSLeay => 0' for
'ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz' failed when processing
'NANIS/Crypt-SSLeay-0.58.tar.gz' with 'make => NO'. Continuing, but chances
to succeed are limited.
Warning: Prerequisite 'HTTP::Request::Common => 0' for
'ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz' failed when processing
'GAAS/HTTP-Message-6.02.tar.gz' with 'make => NO'. Continuing, but chances
to succeed are limited.
Warning: Prerequisite 'LWP::UserAgent => 0' for
'ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz' failed when processing
'GAAS/libwww-perl-6.02.tar.gz' with 'make => NO'. Continuing, but chances to
succeed are limited.
Warning: Prerequisite 'HTML::TableExtract => 0' for
'ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz' failed when processing
'MSISK/HTML-TableExtract-2.10.tar.gz' with 'make => NO'. Continuing, but
chances to succeed are limited.
Can't exec "./make": No such file or directory at
/usr/lib64/perl5/5.12.3/CPAN/Distribution.pm line 2026.
  ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz
  ./make -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
root at sergei:/usr/bin$

This was the end of an attempt to run qnc-fq-update. There were a fair
number of complaints prior to this about make failures. I assure you that
make is installed and works fine (I don't know perl -- perhaps that's not
the system make it's complaining about, but maybe some perl thing also named
make? I'm guessing here, obviously.). Any ideas?

Thnx --
/Don