Bundle::LWP Installation Problems

growlf has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Having troubles installing Bundle::LWP - been trying to do this for several hours now, and failing miserably.

Here is the output where it starts to go wrong (after the command "perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::LWP' "):

  ......
  Running make test
  [--clipped for brevity--]
  robot/rules-dbm......ok
  robot/rules..........ok
  robot/ua.............HTTP Server terminated
  robot/ua.............FAILED tests 1-3, 5, 7
        Failed 5/7 tests, 28.57% okay
  local/autoload.......ok
  local/get............ok
  local/http...........HTTP Server terminated
  local/http...........NOK 8Can't call method "is_redirect" on an unde
+fined value at local/http.t line 188, <DAEMON> line 1.
  local/http...........dubious
        Test returned status 22 (wstat 5632, 0x1600) DIED. FAILED test
+s 1-18
        Failed 18/18 tests, 0.00% okay
  local/protosub.......ok
  Failed Test  Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
  --------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------
  local/http.t   22  5632    18   18 100.00%  1-18
  robot/ua.t                  7    5  71.43%  1-3 5 7
  Failed 2/23 test scripts, 91.30% okay. 23/302 subtests failed, 92.38
+% okay.
  *** Error code 9

  Stop in /usr/local/lib/cpan/build/libwww-perl-5.64.
    /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
  Running make install
    make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
  Bundle summary: The following items in bundle Bundle::LWP had instal
+lation
  problems:
    LWP
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As you can see, it has made it through the make process all the way up to the tests. Why is it dying here? What obvious thing have I overlooked? I realize that I could "force" the install, but that seems lame, and wrong - besides, I'd rather learn why it is doing this to begin with. I have used super search and looked at the POD as well, no clues avail themselves to me tired eyes.

Additional system info:

Perl V5.61
OS FreeBSD 4.4
CPAN 1.59_54 (latest version I believe)

Any help is greatly appreciated.

*G*

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Re: Bundle::LWP Installation Problems by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Apr 04, 2002 at 06:05 UTC
Last time I updated LWP, I needed to install a newer libwww. Try checking its version. Update: I meant the C libraries from w3c, which LWP wraps. The current version is libwww-5.3.2 After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re: Re: Bundle::LWP Installation Problems by growlf (Pilgrim) on Apr 04, 2002 at 06:43 UTC
Thanks Zaxo. Unfortunately, that is where (in LWP's dependancies) it dies (specificly G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.64.tar.gz) - is there a different one? G	[reply]
Re: Re: Bundle::LWP Installation Problems by IlyaM (Parson) on Apr 04, 2002 at 18:19 UTC
Hmm, are you sure? AFAIK LWP doesn't have any dependacies on this C library and LWP doesn't wrap it or any other C library. In fact it is pure Perl module which cannot have direct dependancies on any C library. -- Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Bundle::LWP Installation Problems by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Apr 04, 2002 at 19:18 UTC
You're right, but I distinctly remember the occasion. I wonder what really happened? Heisenbug I guess. The funny thing is I told someone else, and it worked for him, too. I haven't located any system calls in LWP. Mystifying. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Bundle::LWP Installation Problems by growlf (Pilgrim) on Apr 06, 2002 at 01:09 UTC
Re: Bundle::LWP Installation Problems by mce (Curate) on Apr 04, 2002 at 10:00 UTC
Hi, The libwww test suite starts an HTTP::Daemon process on a random port. Perhaps there is a problem with this on your machine (ie. it cannot launch the command local/http.t daemon in the src/t directory. You can always go directly to the source directory (in .cpan) and build manually by typing `perl Makefile.PL make make test` [download] after reading all the README files of course :-) Just my 0.02$ worth. --------------------------- Dr. Mark Ceulemans Senior Consultant IT Masters, Belgium	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Bundle::LWP Installation Problems by rjray (Chaplain) on Apr 04, 2002 at 06:19 UTC
I've also seen these messages when I did a fresh install of LWP recently after configuring a new machine. I consider them worrysome, but the author is aware of them (I think-- I'm pretty sure I reported them, plus almost everything in CPAN goes through CPANTS anymore, and they always e-mail me when one of my modules burps). I've opted to force installation more out of laziness and lack of enough time to investigate more closely. `--rjray`	[reply]


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