cpan broken?

Gokee2 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello all,

Cpan seems to be broken on my Debian Lenny system that uses perl 5.10.0-11.1. I am trying to install HTML::Tidy and cpan fails:

CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18)
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:02:48 GMT
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v5.814)
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9715)

I would like to connect to one of the following sites to get 'authors/
+01mailrc.txt.gz':

 http://www.perl.org/CPAN/
 ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/

Is it OK to try to connect to the Internet? [yes]
Fetching with LWP:
  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.66)
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
......................................................................
+......DONE
Fetching with LWP:
  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
  Database was generated on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:02:46 GMT
......................................................................
+......DONE
Fetching with LWP:
  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
......................................................................
+......DONE
Going to write /root/.cpan/Metadata
Running install for module 'HTML::Tidy'
Running make for P/PE/PETDANCE/HTML-Tidy-1.08.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.47)
Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/HTML-Tidy-1.
+08.tar.gz ok
HTML-Tidy-1.08/
HTML-Tidy-1.08/lib/
HTML-Tidy-1.08/lib/HTML/
HTML-Tidy-1.08/lib/HTML/Tidy/
HTML-Tidy-1.08/lib/HTML/Tidy/Message.pm
HTML-Tidy-1.08/lib/HTML/Tidy.pm
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/opt-00.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/cfg-for-parse.cfg
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/simple.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/segfault-form.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/wordwrap.cfg
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/roundtrip.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/too-many-titles.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/cfg-for-parse.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/wordwrap.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/venus.cfg
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/unicode.html
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/pod-coverage.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/00-load.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/levels.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/unicode.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/pod.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/extra-quote.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/ignore-text.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/ignore.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/venus.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/version.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/clean-crash.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/perfect.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/venus.html
HTML-Tidy-1.08/t/message.t
HTML-Tidy-1.08/Changes
HTML-Tidy-1.08/Tidy.xs
HTML-Tidy-1.08/MANIFEST
HTML-Tidy-1.08/bin/
HTML-Tidy-1.08/bin/webtidy
HTML-Tidy-1.08/perlcriticrc
HTML-Tidy-1.08/ppport.h
HTML-Tidy-1.08/README
HTML-Tidy-1.08/Makefile.PL
HTML-Tidy-1.08/META.yml
CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.20)

  CPAN.pm: Going to build P/PE/PETDANCE/HTML-Tidy-1.08.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for HTML::Tidy
cp lib/HTML/Tidy/Message.pm blib/lib/HTML/Tidy/Message.pm
cp lib/HTML/Tidy.pm blib/lib/HTML/Tidy.pm
/usr/bin/perl /usr/share/perl/5.10/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap /usr/shar
+e/perl/5.10/ExtUtils/typemap  Tidy.xs > Tidy.xsc && mv Tidy.xsc Tidy.
+c
cc -c  -I. -I/usr/include/tidy -I/usr/local/include/tidy -I/sw/include
+/tidy -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe 
+-I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -
+g   -DVERSION=\"1.08\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.08\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl/5
+.10/CORE"   Tidy.c
Running Mkbootstrap for HTML::Tidy ()
chmod 644 Tidy.bs
rm -f blib/arch/auto/HTML/Tidy/Tidy.so
LD_RUN_PATH="/usr/lib" cc  -shared -O2 -g -L/usr/local/lib Tidy.o  -o 
+blib/arch/auto/HTML/Tidy/Tidy.so  \
           -ltidy       \

chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/HTML/Tidy/Tidy.so
cp Tidy.bs blib/arch/auto/HTML/Tidy/Tidy.bs
chmod 644 blib/arch/auto/HTML/Tidy/Tidy.bs
cp bin/webtidy blib/script/webtidy
/usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::MY" -e "MY->fixin(shift)" blib/script/webti
+dy
Manifying blib/man3/HTML::Tidy::Message.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/HTML::Tidy.3pm
  PETDANCE/HTML-Tidy-1.08.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make -- OK
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/00-load............ok
t/cfg-for-parse......ok
t/clean-crash........ok
t/extra-quote........ok
t/ignore-text........ok
t/ignore.............ok
t/levels.............ok
t/message............ok
t/opt-00.............ok
t/perfect............ Failed 1/3 subtests
t/pod-coverage.......skipped: Test::Pod::Coverage 1.04 required for te
+sting POD coverage
t/pod................ok
t/roundtrip..........ok
t/segfault-form......ok
t/simple.............1/4 Unknown error type: line 2 column 5 - Info: <
+body> previously mentioned at t/simple.t line 17
Unknown error type: line 2 column 5 - Info: <body> previously mentione
+d at t/simple.t line 17
Unknown error type: line 2 column 5 - Info: <body> previously mentione
+d at t/simple.t line 17
t/simple.............ok
t/too-many-titles....1/3 Unknown error type: line 4 column 9 - Info: <
+head> previously mentioned at t/too-many-titles.t line 22
t/too-many-titles....ok
t/unicode............ Failed 1/7 subtests
t/venus..............1/3 Unknown error type: line 8 column 2 - Info: <
+h1> previously mentioned at t/venus.t line 21
Unknown error type: line 10 column 2 - Info: <h1> previously mentioned
+ at t/venus.t line 21
Unknown error type: line 11 column 2 - Info: <h1> previously mentioned
+ at t/venus.t line 21
Unknown error type: line 12 column 2 - Info: <h1> previously mentioned
+ at t/venus.t line 21
Unknown error type: line 15 column 2 - Info: <h2> previously mentioned
+ at t/venus.t line 21
Unknown error type: line 17 column 2 - Info: <h4> previously mentioned
+ at t/venus.t line 21
Unknown error type: line 18 column 2 - Info: <h4> previously mentioned
+ at t/venus.t line 21
Unknown error type: line 20 column 2 - Info: <h4> previously mentioned
+ at t/venus.t line 21
Unknown error type: line 25 column 3 - Info: <h4> previously mentioned
+ at t/venus.t line 21
t/venus..............ok
t/version............ok
t/wordwrap...........1/2 Unknown error type: line 1 column 1 - Info: <
+head> previously mentioned at t/wordwrap.t line 35
t/wordwrap...........ok

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/perfect        (Wstat: 11 Tests: 2 Failed: 0)
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 3 tests but ran 2.
t/unicode        (Wstat: 11 Tests: 6 Failed: 0)
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 7 tests but ran 6.
Files=20, Tests=76,  2 wallclock secs ( 0.10 usr  0.01 sys +  1.25 cus
+r  0.16 csys =  1.52 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 2/20 test programs. 0/76 subtests failed.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
  PETDANCE/HTML-Tidy-1.08.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
//hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, t
+ry:
  reports PETDANCE/HTML-Tidy-1.08.tar.gz
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
[download]

Also cpan -O gives out some nasty output:

CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18)
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:02:46 GMT
Module Name                                Local    CPAN
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---
Could not eval '
            package ExtUtils::MakeMaker::_version;
            no strict;
            BEGIN { eval {
                # Ensure any version() routine which might have leaked
                # into this package has been deleted.  Interferes with
                # version->import()
                undef *version;
                require version;
                "version"->import;
            } }

            local $mod_perl::VERSION;
            $mod_perl::VERSION=undef;
            do {
                    if ( $mod_perl::VERSION >= 1.999022 ) { # mod_perl
+ 2.0.0 RC5
            };
            $mod_perl::VERSION;
        ' in /usr/share/perl5/Authen/Simple/Apache.pm: Missing right c
+urly or square bracket at (eval 33) line 20, at end of line
syntax error at (eval 33) line 20, at EOF
Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::Authen::Simple  0.0100  0.0200
Geo::IP                                   1.3100  1.3300
IO::Zlib                                  1.0700  1.0900
Image::Magick                             6.3000  6.0040
Net::Daemon                               0.3800  0.4300
Net::Daemon::Test                         0.0200  0.0300
Purple                                    0.0100  1.0000
RPC::PlClient                             0.2017  0.2020
RPC::PlServer                             0.2017  0.2020
RPC::PlServer::Comm                       0.1002  0.1003
SDL                                       1.2000  2.0010
SelfLoader                                1.1500  1.1600
[download]

Any idea whats wrong?

Thanks,
Gokee2

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Re: cpan broken? by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Aug 04, 2008 at 20:18 UTC
You've got two unrelated issues I think. If you look at http://testers.cpan.org/show/HTML-Tidy.html you'll see HTML::Tidy is getting a lot of FAIL results. I'm not sure what's up with Authen::Simple. I get the same error from `cpan -O` as you, but it shouldn't stop you from performing any other cpan operations Since you've got perl 5.10.0 installed, why not use `cpanp` instead of `cpan`? At least it doesn't complain about Authen::Simple.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: cpan broken? by Gokee2 (Acolyte) on Aug 04, 2008 at 20:27 UTC
I have never heard of cpanp before. Is it better? Looks like I can`t just say cpanp HTML::Tidy to try and install... Hmm interesting with the testers thing. If I use the -f switch to install tidy will tidy not work or would it be ok? Thanks!	[reply]
Re^3: cpan broken? by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Aug 04, 2008 at 20:41 UTC
cpanp is the new, improved cpan but there is little difference in use. To install a package use `cpanp i HTML::Tidy` [download] or `cpanp t HTML::Tidy` [download] just to download and test it. I'm fairly confident that HTML::Tidy won't work though. There's a bunch of errors being reported in the author's XS code so forcing an install isn't going to work.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: cpan broken? by Gokee2 (Acolyte) on Aug 05, 2008 at 03:52 UTC
Re^5: cpan broken? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 05, 2008 at 06:57 UTC