in reply to Building perl fails tests with 01_Archive-Extract.t, stress.t and h2ph.t

How can I successfully build perl?

You have! You used Perl to run CPAN.pm interactively to download a new copy of Archive::Extract.

The latest error you get, 

Using Tar:/bin/tar xf "Archive-Extract-0.76.tar":
Couldn't untar Archive-Extract-0.76.tar

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is from your system, not from Perl.

FWIW I downloaded and successfully untarred the file with bsdtar 2.8.3 - libarchive 2.8.3 on OS X.

I cannot speak to the other errors thrown by the other modules that are failing to install.

The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

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Re^2: Building perl fails tests with 01_Archive-Extract.t, stress.t and h2ph.t
by Montronaloya (Initiate) on Aug 19, 2015 at 11:26 UTC
    I imagine that I've installed perl, but not totally successfully. Probably most things work, but since make test fails, not everything is working perfectly. After installing perl, I've gone further down the path, and Logitech Media Server fails, so I guess some of the failed make parts are relevant. I suppose I need to fix the failed tests so that Logitech Media Server works properly. (Or at least so I can exclude them from causing the problems.)
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