I am trying to install version 2.29 of XML::Parser on a Solaris 9 box. 2.29 was the last version to come with
its own version of expat. I can make, and everything compiles just fine, but when I make test I get
the following error.

PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "
+test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/astress.........FAILED tests 4-24
        Failed 21/25 tests, 16.00% okay
t/cdata...........
no element found at line 1, column 0, byte -1:
14^
88608
 at /u01/falcon/XML-Parser-2.29/blib/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 185
t/cdata...........dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED test 2
        Failed 1/2 tests, 50.00% okay
t/decl............
no element found at line 1, column 0, byte -1:
14^
64696
 at /u01/falcon/XML-Parser-2.29/blib/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 185
t/decl............dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 2-30
        Failed 29/30 tests, 3.33% okay
t/defaulted.......
no element found at line 1, column 0, byte -1 at /u01/falcon/XML-Parse
+r-2.29/blib/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 185
t/defaulted.......dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 2-4
        Failed 3/4 tests, 25.00% okay
t/encoding........
no element found at line 1, column 0, byte -1 at /u01/falcon/XML-Parse
+r-2.29/blib/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 185
t/encoding........dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 2-4
        Failed 3/4 tests, 25.00% okay
t/external_ent....
no element found at line 1, column 0, byte -1 at /u01/falcon/XML-Parse
+r-2.29/blib/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 185
t/external_ent....dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 2-5
        Failed 4/5 tests, 20.00% okay
t/file............ok
t/finish..........ok
t/namespaces......
no element found at line 1, column 0, byte -1:
14^
58416
 at /u01/falcon/XML-Parser-2.29/blib/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 185
t/namespaces......dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 2-16
        Failed 15/16 tests, 6.25% okay
t/parament........
no element found at line 1, column 0, byte -1:
14^
60624
 at /u01/falcon/XML-Parser-2.29/blib/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 185
t/parament........dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 2-12
        Failed 11/12 tests, 8.33% okay
t/partial.........
no element found at line 1, column 0, byte -1 at t/partial.t line 33
t/partial.........dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 2-3
        Failed 2/3 tests, 33.33% okay
t/skip............ok
t/stream..........ok
Failed Test      Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------
t/astress.t                    25   21  84.00%  4-24
t/cdata.t         255 65280     2    2 100.00%  2
t/decl.t          255 65280    30   58 193.33%  2-30
t/defaulted.t     255 65280     4    6 150.00%  2-4
t/encoding.t      255 65280     4    6 150.00%  2-4
t/external_ent.t  255 65280     5    8 160.00%  2-5
t/namespaces.t    255 65280    16   30 187.50%  2-16
t/parament.t      255 65280    12   22 183.33%  2-12
t/partial.t       255 65280     3    4 133.33%  2-3
Failed 9/13 test scripts, 30.77% okay. 89/113 subtests failed, 21.24% 
+okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 29

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Any idea what is causing this? I googled this, but they all say to install expat, which I shouldn't need to do because it is included with my version of XML::Parser

In reply to make test failing for XML::Parser version 2.29 by choedebeck

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