Ommiting make test while installation perl modules

ajeet@perl has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks

Asking you a very basic question, because i am little bit confused...

While installing any perl modules from CPAN, we go through following phases

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
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Now, My question is that can we ignore make test phase while installation, or it do something which is required for installation...??

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Re: Ommiting make test while installation perl modules by jethro (Monsignor) on Apr 13, 2010 at 09:03 UTC
You could ignore make test. It would be very bad module design if it did anything else than testing the installation. But don't blame anyone but yourself if you later waste hours to find the problem in a broken installation because one of the modules didn't install correctly.	[reply]
Re^2: Ommiting make test while installation perl modules by ajeet@perl (Acolyte) on Apr 13, 2010 at 10:07 UTC
Yeah...you are right..Thank You :)	[reply]
Re: Ommiting make test while installation perl modules by marto (Cardinal) on Apr 13, 2010 at 09:04 UTC
Do you have a good reason for not wishing to run the tests? Why aren't you using CPAN to install modules? See Yes, even you can use CPAN and Installing Modules from the tutorials section of this site.	[reply]
Re: Ommiting make test while installation perl modules by syphilis (Archbishop) on Apr 13, 2010 at 09:06 UTC
You can skip `make test` if you want. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Ommiting make test while installation perl modules by ajeet@perl (Acolyte) on Apr 13, 2010 at 13:09 UTC
Thanks...	[reply]
Re: Ommiting make test while installation perl modules by pemungkah (Priest) on Apr 14, 2010 at 23:42 UTC
The 'make test', as others have noted, simply makes sure that the module functions in your environment (for differing values of 'functions', depending on how good the test suite is). Many Linux distributions provide Perl module packages that simply copy the modules into place without doing 'make test'; however, generally speaking, the package builder ran the tests on his or her build system. This is a little less safe than building and installing them yourself, but can save a heap of time.	[reply]