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Re^3: Perl module Parse::CPAN::Authors - installation fails permanent
by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Nov 01, 2010 at 11:31 UTC
    The simple.t failed because of an insecure $ENV{PATH} when running under -T. -T stands for "enable tainting checks". Perl goes into paranoid mode and obsessively/compulsively does run-time checking of all the paths of execution that the script could take; hence it's looking at all the paths and not getting any. You'll need to set $ENV{PATH} something like this in your script:
    $ENV{'PATH'} = '/bin:/usr/bin';
    Or in your terminal:
    export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
    Update: corrected
Re^3: Perl module Parse::CPAN::Authors - installation fails permanent
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 01, 2010 at 09:47 UTC
      yeah...i'm getting sick of this myself. too many school homework questions or script kiddies (that can't script) and want to scrape email addresses off sites, and want the whole code given to them in perl. neither of the above actually want to learn anything. and there's also the non-software engineers that get to write at least some code for a living, and want it fixed for them..but not having much wherewithall, they often can't see the forest for the trees. yawn.
      the hardest line to type correctly is: stty erase ^H