Because I'm on the Perl.com newsletter mailing list, I learned recently about chromatic's fascinating series on Refactoring the Everything Engine. I was particularly intrigued with Test::MockObject because it addressed a weakness of one of my current development situations, that of being unable to test a web application in a controlled manner. (This is a whole other can of worms .. I'm trying to stay on topic here.)

So, all enthused, I went over to my FC4 test system and went to install Test::MockObject, only to see it fail as follows:

Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_h
+arness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/base............NOK 1#     Failed test (t/base.t at line 8)         
+       
#     Tried to use 'Test::MockObject'.
#     Error:  Weak references are not implemented in the version of pe
+rl at /root/.cpan/build/Test-MockObject-1.06/b
lib/lib/Test/MockObject.pm line 9
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /root/.cpan/build/Test-MockObje
+ct-1.06/blib/lib/Test/MockObject.pm line 9.
# Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 2.
...

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I have done some research, and it's been suggested that Red Hat in general has this kind of problem. I'm using Perl 5.8.6, and I did do a yum -y update a week or two ago, so I believe things are up to date.

Thoughts?

Alex / talexb / Toronto

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In reply to Weak references error when installing Test::MockObject by talexb

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