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

I am trying to install DBI on an XP laptop under Cygwin. CPAN install failed. Looks like it is failing while trying to install prerequisite Net:Daemon (and perhaps other things). So I tried to install just that. 

cpan[6]> test Net::Daemon
Running test for module 'Net::Daemon'
Running make for M/MN/MNOONING/Net-Daemon/Net-Daemon-0.43.tar.gz

  CPAN.pm: Going to build M/MN/MNOONING/Net-Daemon/Net-Daemon-0.43.tar
+.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Net::Daemon
cp lib/Net/Daemon/Test.pm blib/lib/Net/Daemon/Test.pm
cp lib/Net/Daemon.pm blib/lib/Net/Daemon.pm
cp lib/Net/Daemon/Log.pm blib/lib/Net/Daemon/Log.pm
  MNOONING/Net-Daemon/Net-Daemon-0.43.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make -- OK
Running make test
/usr/bin/perl5.10.0.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0
+, 'blib/li
b', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/base............ok
t/config..........no connection to syslog available
        - /dev/log is not a socket at blib/lib/Net/Daemon/Log.pm line 
+114
Server process didn't create a file 'ndtest.prt'. at /cygdrive/c/Docum
+ents and S
ettings/huffman_s/.cpan/build/Net-Daemon-2UzCir/blib/lib/Net/Daemon/Te
+st.pm line
 317.
t/config.......... Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
 Failed 5/5 subtests
t/fork............no connection to syslog available
        - /dev/log is not a socket at blib/lib/Net/Daemon/Log.pm line 
+114
Server process didn't create a file 'ndtest.prt'. at /cygdrive/c/Docum
+ents and S
ettings/huffman_s/.cpan/build/Net-Daemon-2UzCir/blib/lib/Net/Daemon/Te
+st.pm line
 317.
t/fork............ Failed 5/5 subtests
t/forkm...........Unexpected return from Bind().
Server died: no connection to syslog available
        - /dev/log is not a socket at blib/lib/Net/Daemon/Log.pm line 
+114

Client: Error Cannot connect: Connection refused at t/forkm.t line 93.

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Not sure why this would be. Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks

Skip

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Re: Trouble installing DBI::Bundle
by zwon (Abbot) on Dec 29, 2009 at 19:21 UTC

    That's because you doesn't have syslog running or maybe cygwin doesn't emulate local sockets, not sure, I have no experience with cygwin. But AFAIK Net::Daemon is required only for DBD::Proxy, so if you don't need it, you can safely ignore failed tests and force installation of Net::Daemon.

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      Thanks. I am learning more about Cygwin than I thought there was to know. I am going to upgrade Cygwin first and see if I can enable syslogd

      Skip

      PS: Dear World, why the heck isn't syslog DEFAULT in cygwin. Seems like a pretty darn core function to me.

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        I'm actually not sure that the problem is in Cygwin, it maybe problem with Net::Daemon itself, or with some module it uses, particularly try to update Sys::Syslog. Also check if Cygwin's syslog.exe works, it should log messages into windows event log. Or, as I already told you, just put off with it, most likely you don't need it. Just install DBI instead of Bundle::DBI.

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