I have cygwin installed on my machine and I am trying to install HTML::Parser, but keep getting the following error when trying to install its dependency HTML::Tagset...
cpan[1]> install HTML::Tagset CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /home/kcella/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:27:44 GMT Running install for module HTML::Tagset Running make for P/PE/PETDANCE/HTML-Tagset-3.10.tar.gz CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok Checksum for /home/kcella/.cpan/sources/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/HTML- +Tagset-3.10.tar.gz ok Scanning cache /home/kcella/.cpan/build for sizes HTML-Tagset-3.10/ HTML-Tagset-3.10/Tagset.pm HTML-Tagset-3.10/Changes HTML-Tagset-3.10/MANIFEST HTML-Tagset-3.10/META.yml HTML-Tagset-3.10/README HTML-Tagset-3.10/MANIFEST.SKIP HTML-Tagset-3.10/t/ HTML-Tagset-3.10/t/pod.t HTML-Tagset-3.10/t/00_about_verbose.t HTML-Tagset-3.10/t/01_old_junk.t HTML-Tagset-3.10/Makefile.PL Removing previously used /home/kcella/.cpan/build/HTML-Tagset-3.10 CPAN.pm: Going to build P/PE/PETDANCE/HTML-Tagset-3.10.tar.gz Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for HTML::Tagset CPAN: YAML loaded ok cp Tagset.pm blib/lib/HTML/Tagset.pm /usr/bin/make -- OK Running make test /usr/bin/perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'bli +b/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/00_about_verbose....ok + t/01_old_junk.........ok + t/pod.................sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for + matching `"' sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file t/pod.................dubious + Test returned status 2 (wstat 512, 0x200) Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- +--------- t/pod.t 2 512 ?? ?? % ?? Failed 1/3 test scripts, 66.67% okay. 0/3 subtests failed, 100.00% oka +y. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 2 /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK Running make install make test had returned bad status, won't install without force Failed during this command: PETDANCE/HTML-Tagset-3.10.tar.gz : make_test NO
Any ideas?

In reply to cannot install HTML Parser module using CPAN shell by kcella

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