Fellows monks,

Having read so much about Crypt::OpenPGP in these pages, I'm anxious to give it a spin for a coming project.

I began a manual installation on a shared FreeBSD 4.6 system I use for web hosting. I set the LIB and PREFIX params for Makefile.PL to my local perl directory as I usually do. When I ran the test suite a few failed because Perl was finding the servers (very) old Crypt::OpenPGP installation. I added a "use lib" statment to the top of the test to make sure the proper files where being tested. As a result, all the tests passed except for one:

perl 13-keygen.t 
1..28
PARI:   ***   precision loss in truncation at /usr/local/lib/perl5/sit
+e_perl/5.6.1/Crypt/Primes.pm line 580.

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Trying to trace the error back it's source I found that Primes.pm calls Math::Pari which is an interface to a C library I know little about.

Has anyone else seen this error? I'm hesitant to deply a crypto module of all things before all the tests pass.

Thanks!
sz

In reply to Problem installing Crypt::OpenPGP by sz

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