in reply to test modules fail install

Net::SSLeay is a notoriously hard module to install, particularly on Redhat systems (as are most crypto modules on RH systems). I would do the following (in this order - obviously stopping when I find a way that works):
  1. See if I can't use the RPM for Net::SSLeay (the finding of is left as an exercise for the reader).
  2. Install all the Test::* modules first, then try Net::SSLeay
  3. Hire someone (not me!) who's done this before for the couple hours it'll take and pay them $250. Make documentation of what they did a requirement. Even better would be an RPM. It'll be cheaper for your employer to do that than to have you faffing about for another 3 days and still not get it done.
My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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Re^2: test modules fail install
by davidov0009 (Scribe) on Nov 21, 2007 at 16:10 UTC
    Thank you dragonchild, I downloaded the rpm, installed the module and then ran the MCPAN shell again for the paypal module, no complaints at all. I was unaware that modules came in rpm's. Thank you.
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