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

Hi, I tried to install CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication, but getting lots of errors. On Deb 4.0: 
t/01_basic..................ok 1/9Undefined subroutine &Scalar::Util::
+weaken called at /root/.cpan/build/CGI-Application-Plugin-Authenticat
+ion-0.12/blib/lib/CGI/Application/Plugin/Authentication.pm line 1543.
# Looks like you planned 9 tests but only ran 4.
# Looks like your test died just after 4.
t/01_basic..................dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)

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On Suse linux 10.3: 
t/02_config.................NOK 31
#   Failed test 'config dies when RENDER_LOGIN is passed a hashref'
#   at t/02_config.t line 93.
# expecting: Regexp ((?-xism:parameter RENDER_LOGIN is not a coderef))
# found: Bizarre copy of ARRAY in sassign at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Carp/
+Heavy.pm line 39.
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 69.
t/02_config.................dubious
        Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
DIED. FAILED test 31
        Failed 1/69 tests, 98.55% okay

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Any ideas what could be done? Thanks, Chris

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Re: installation of CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication failed
by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 09, 2008 at 13:52 UTC
    Hi, I tried to install CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication, but getting lots of errors. On Deb 4.0:

    On Debian you can use the pre-packed module: 

    aptitude install libcgi-application-plugins-perl

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      Debian worked with aptitude.
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        If I try with cpan, i get now: 
        t/02_config.................NOK 31
#   Failed test 'config dies when RENDER_LOGIN is passed a hashref'
#   at t/02_config.t line 93.
# expecting: Regexp ((?-xism:parameter RENDER_LOGIN is not a coderef))
# found: Bizarre copy of ARRAY in sassign at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Carp/
+Heavy.pm line 39.
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 69.
t/02_config.................dubious
        Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)

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        Is this an error of Plugin::Authentication or my fault?
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Re: installation of CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication failed
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 09, 2008 at 18:32 UTC
    Install a Scalar::Util which provides weaken
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      cpan> install Scalar::Util
      Scalar::Util is up to date.
      ??
      Same errors as before on Suse 10.3
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        perl Makefile.PL -xs
make 
make test
perl -Mblib -MScalar::Util=weaken -e weaken() 
make install
perl -Mblib -MScalar::Util=weaken -e weaken()

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