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

<whine> ok, I've been at this too long to see why it's failing. Anyone ever have issues getting LWP installed? Specifically, ever see the following? </whine>
local/get...........ok + local/http..........ok + local/protosub......ok + live/activestate....EOF instead of reponse status line at ../blib/lib/ +Net/HTTP/Methods.pm line 292. live/activestate....dubious + Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00) DIED. FAILED tests 1-2 Failed 2/2 tests, 0.00% okay live/jigsaw-auth-b..ok + live/jigsaw-auth-d..FAILED test 1 + Failed 1/1 tests, 0.00% okay live/jigsaw-chunk...Use of uninitialized value in string eq at live/ji +gsaw-chunk.t line 14. live/jigsaw-chunk...FAILED test 2 + Failed 1/5 tests, 80.00% okay live/jigsaw-md5.....FAILED test 2 + Failed 1/2 tests, 50.00% okay live/jigsaw-neg.....ok + live/jigsaw-te......ok + live/validator......ok + Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- +---------- live/activestate.t 255 65280 2 2 100.00% 1-2 live/jigsaw-auth-d.t 1 1 100.00% 1 live/jigsaw-chunk.t 5 1 20.00% 2 live/jigsaw-md5.t 2 1 50.00% 2 Failed 4/30 test scripts, 86.67% okay. 5/308 subtests failed, 98.38% o +kay. make: *** [test] Error 29

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Re: LWP won't install
by eLore (Hermit) on Dec 04, 2001 at 06:17 UTC
    Ok, on further investigation it seems that the digest authentication is the first thing to fail. Any thoughts?
    update:(you'd think I'd never done this, before)
    • Perl 5.6.1
    • Solaris 2.7
    • libwww install attempted via perl -MCPAN... install Bundle::LWP