in reply to CPAN and make test

I'm not sure why this happens (possibly modules failing tests due to insufficient prereqs?). To fix it, leave the CPAN.pm shell, and try installing this module manually. 

cd /root/.cpan/build/Embperl-2.0rc2
perl Makefile.PL && make && make test && make install

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Then go back to the CPAN shell and install whatever else you wanted in this session.

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Re^2: CPAN and make test
by samizdat (Vicar) on Mar 02, 2005 at 17:39 UTC
    There are two glitches in the promary make (this is prior to make test):

    libxml2 doesn't support DOCBparser, #warning "The DOCBparser module has been deprecated in libxml2-2.6.0" and a created file typemap was not located in the proper place. However, still have bugs even after fixing that. It appears that the module is motheaten relative to something in the rest of my system.

    Thanks, all!

    Update: The FreeBSD ports version installs correctly. Thanks for your tips which helped further my understanding of the CPAN process!! :D
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