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

I have a pretty vanilla config -- fresh RedHat 8.0 install with Perl 5.8.0 and a few updated modules from CPAN.

I get HTML::Parser failign tests when I try to install LWP or SpamAssassin. I tried one version earlier, and the same tests fail. I tried letting it use decoding on Unicode characters which it gave as an otpion, and more tests failed (the same plus others).

Anyone have any insights on this?

Christopher E. Stith

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Re: HTML::Parser failing tests
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Aug 07, 2003 at 15:21 UTC
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      Thank you so very much!

      The Failed Tests while Installing HTML::Parser link lead me to a discussion of same in one of its replies, which says basically this:

      RedHat 8 makes its default language en_US.UTF8 instead of just en_US for some reason, and perl tries to honor this. By switching the $LANG environment variable to en_US (for Anglophiles of US dialect, of course), it lets it work.

      This worked very well. I love this site more every time I think to use it. Thanks again. Sorry I didn't search first this time. I usually do, but I got hurried. I'll remember to search first next time.

      Christopher E. Stith
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        By the way, the upcoming perl 5.8.1 release will fix this problem.
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