ok you are right. I left out the details. I did the perl -w Makefile.pl inside the Net-Addr file. It does everything ok but the make test fails and has only a 9.02% success. here is a full error report and am really hoping it helps.
Test returned status 2 (wstat 512, 0x200) Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- +--------- t/imhoff.t 255 65280 3 6 200.00% 1-3 t/loops.t 255 65280 21 41 195.24% 1-21 t/masklen.t 2 512 ?? ?? % ?? t/new-store.t 1 256 7 3 42.86% 2 8-9 t/old-store.t 1 256 7 3 42.86% 2 8-9 t/over-arr.t 2 512 ?? ?? % ?? t/over-qq.t 2 512 ?? ?? % ?? t/relops.t 2 512 ?? ?? % ?? t/short.t 1 256 19 1 5.26% 1 t/v4-coalesce.t 255 65280 21 41 195.24% 1-21 t/v4-compact.t 2 512 ?? ?? % ?? t/v4-compplus.t 2 512 ?? ?? % ?? t/v4-hostenum.t 2 512 ?? ?? % ?? t/v4-re.t 255 65280 299 597 199.67% 1-299 t/v4-split-bulk.t 255 65280 ?? ?? % ?? t/v4-split-list.t 2 512 ?? ?? % ?? t/v4-sprefix.t 2 512 ?? ?? % ?? t/v4-xprefix.t 2 512 ?? ?? % ?? t/v6-re.t 255 65280 ?? ?? % ?? t/v6-split-bulk.t 255 65280 ?? ?? % ?? t/wildcard.t 2 512 ?? ?? % ?? 32 subtests skipped. Failed 21/21 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 343/377 subtests failed, 9.02% +okay. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 2

In reply to Re^2: NetAddr-IP-4.007 compilation in Fedora fails miserably by h3x
in thread NetAddr-IP-4.007 compilation in Fedora fails miserably by h3x

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