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

Actually..i'm having some problem when installing POP3Client where there are problem when i do make test..and the test Skipped!..how should I fixs it?

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Re: POP3Client!!
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Feb 08, 2003 at 17:18 UTC

    I use this module a lot and it always does this. If you RTFM that comes with Mail::POP3Client - that's the thing called README - you will find the following bit no more than half a dozen lines from the top: 

    HOW DO I INSTALL/TEST IT?

To install Mail::POP3Client:

% perl Makefile.PL
% make
% make test
% make install

NOTE: if you want to test against a real mailbox, set the environment
variable POPTESTACCOUNT to some POP3 account in the following format:
user:password:host.

% export POPTESTACCOUNT=jsmith:secret:pop3.my.do.main
% make test

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    What it does not explicity say is that if you dont set POPTESTACCOUNT it will skip tests.

    Don't worry this is a vanilla Perl module. Just install it. If you can use it in a Perl script (it was installed) and if you have an RFC compliant POP server it will work just fine.

    cheers

    tachyon

    It's called README for a reason. Why does nobody ever bother to READIT?

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Re: POP3Client!!
by pfaut (Priest) on Feb 08, 2003 at 15:43 UTC

    I'm not familiar with POP3Client but skipped tests are not normally something to worry about.

    It's normal for some modules/tools to skip certain tests that are platform specific or that require optional modules that aren't installed. You shouldn't be too worried unless tests are reporting failures.

    It's also possible that the author didn't write a test script but the installer requires one. In this cause, the author could have written a test with one step that gets skipped just to satisfy the installer.

    ---
print map { my ($m)=1<<hex($_)&11?' ':'';
$m.=substr('AHJPacehklnorstu',hex($_),1) }
split //,'2fde0abe76c36c914586c';

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Re: POP3Client!!
by Mr_Person (Hermit) on Feb 08, 2003 at 15:46 UTC
    It's generally okay if a test is skipped. This usually happens if the test used an optional module or a feature that isn't available on your operating system. Have you tried to do a make install after that?
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      no. that's because i'm think i'll not satisfy with it if that problem not solve yet...Is that okey to make install to it?
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        Well, because a skipped test doesn't usually indicate a problem (unless a test was skipped because an optional module that you wanted to be installed is not installed or something similar), there shouldn't be any problem to solve. I'd go ahead and try to install it.
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