Well I said it was a FRESH install

Ok, I get that past make , make test on the other hand is throwing up a quite alarming number of Uninitialised strings and other things, so my next question....would it be wise to go ahead and install?

Perhaps I am doing something naive, I am just trying to add a few modules to the existing perl binary shipped with the system, should I be rebuilding perl completely ?

Here's the output of make test...

Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
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+---------
t/dumper.t               162   78  48.15%  1 3-4 6-7 9-10 12-13 15-16 
+18-19 21-
                                           22 24-25 27-28 30-31 33-34 
+36-37 39-
                                           40 42 49 51-52 54-55 57-58 
+60-61 63-
                                           64 66-67 69-70 72-73 75-76 
+78-79 81-
                                           82 84-85 87-88 90 97 99-100
+ 102-103
                                           105-106 108-109 111-112 114
+-115 117-
                                           118 120 145 147 151 153 157
+ 159
Failed 1/2 test scripts, 50.00% okay. 78/163 subtests failed, 52.15% o
+kay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 29
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Call me silly, but Data::Dumper should already be in your Red Hat supplied installation of Perl.

You can test whether you already have a module with a command like the following:

% perl -MData::Dumper -e1
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It'll give an applicable error message, or no response for success. For a more inspiring test of this module, try:

% perl -MData::Dumper -e 'print Dumper {one=>1};'
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Thankyou very much Ed. I'll go away for now and digest the verbose output of that test.

I like this place already, hopefully I'll be back with some more mature enquiries once I get my all the necessary modules installed and my code (chat server) is underway, I'm just waiting for my login details to come back too whereafter my login handle should be 'Prisoner 9'

Thanks again for your prompt and very helpful resonse

Andy

As for the larger question of building modules you fetch from CPAN, most are nowhere near so complicated as this.

I'm not a fan of CPAN's "shell" but you might want to google for something like cpan shell redhat howto and walk through some examples.

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Just out of curiosity halley, what do you dislike about the CPAN shell?

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yes indeed its there and fuly working I guess. I will check out 2 other options , the CPAN method you mention and RPM which I have just been reading about. All good. Progress stepwise, but satisfying progress nontheless. Cheers Ed.

this may be helpful information:

[andyf@localhost Data-Dumper-2.101]$ perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
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