[root@rubicon prantikd]# perl -MCPAN -e "install XML::Diff" CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18) Going to read '/root/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:27:04 GMT CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v5.821) CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9719) Fetching with LWP: http://cpan.pair.com/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.68) Going to read '/root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz' .......................................................................... ..DONE Fetching with LWP: http://cpan.pair.com/pub/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Going to read '/root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz' Database was generated on Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:27:04 GMT ............... New CPAN.pm version (v1.9402) available. [Currently running version is v1.94] You might want to try install CPAN reload cpan to both upgrade CPAN.pm and run the new version without leaving the current session. .............................................................DONE Fetching with LWP: http://cpan.pair.com/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to read '/root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz' .......................................................................... ..DONE Going to write /root/.cpan/Metadata Running install for module 'XML::Diff' Running make for T/TI/TIMM/XML-Diff-0.05.tar.gz CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.47) Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/T/TI/TIMM/XML-Diff-0.05.tar.gz ok CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.48) XML-Diff-0.05/ XML-Diff-0.05/TODO XML-Diff-0.05/Makefile.PL XML-Diff-0.05/Changes XML-Diff-0.05/MANIFEST XML-Diff-0.05/t/ XML-Diff-0.05/t/xml/ XML-Diff-0.05/t/xml/test1.xml XML-Diff-0.05/t/xml/test2.xml XML-Diff-0.05/t/1.t XML-Diff-0.05/Diff.pm XML-Diff-0.05/README XML-Diff-0.05/META.yml CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.22) CPAN.pm: Going to build T/TI/TIMM/XML-Diff-0.05.tar.gz Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for XML::Diff cp Diff.pm blib/lib/XML/Diff.pm Manifying blib/man3/XML::Diff.3pm TIMM/XML-Diff-0.05.tar.gz /usr/bin/make -- OK Running make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/1.t .. 1/38 setDocumentElement: ELEMENT node required at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/LibXML.pm line 1074. # Looks like you planned 38 tests but ran 4. # Looks like your test exited with 255 just after 4. t/1.t .. Dubious, test returned 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00) Failed 34/38 subtests Test Summary Report ------------------- t/1.t (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 4 Failed: 0) Non-zero exit status: 255 Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 38 tests but ran 4. Files=1, Tests=4, 1 wallclock secs ( 0.05 usr 0.01 sys + 0.13 cusr 0.02 csys = 0.21 CPU) Result: FAIL Failed 1/1 test programs. 0/4 subtests failed. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255 TIMM/XML-Diff-0.05.tar.gz /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK //hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try: reports TIMM/XML-Diff-0.05.tar.gz Running make install make test had returned bad status, won't install without force