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The tests fail for me too. What I do is this: First, make sure that you have libgd installed: 
/opt/ActivePerl-5.14/bin/cpan

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Then at the shell prompt: 
cpan> notest install GD

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Try that, then let me know what happens. I've a few tricks up my sleeve:).

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Re^7: Installing modules
by Chuma (Scribe) on Jan 29, 2012 at 13:35 UTC
    The first command doesn't find the file. It seems that ActivePerl is somewhere else.

    I can try "make install" on the GD thing, but since it says I probably shouldn't, I'm guessing that I probably shouldn't.

    The warnings when I run "make" mention that something is wrong with gdlib:
    ld: warning in /usr/lib/libpng.dylib, file is not of required architecture

    I did install it - it wasn't easy to find, but I found something on
    http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gmod/Generic%20Genome%20Browser/libgd-MacOSX/20100406/
    so I installed that. Maybe that wasn't good enough. Can I get gdlib from somewhere else?

    Also, the new version is only working for one user. I would like all users to be able to use it.

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      You can get libgd here.
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        Okay, I downloaded that, and as it said in the readme file, I ran "./configure" and then "make install". The configure thing remarked that there was no support for JPEG library or Freetype 2.x library, but seemed otherwise happy. "make install" popped out a long list of errors, most of which seem to be related to gd_png.c, and concluded 
        make[1]: *** [gd_png.lo] Error 1
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

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        I don't know if that means it's installed or not.

        Going back to the GD module, now "make" runs without complaining, but "make test" still fails:

        t/GD.t      (Wstat: 512 Tests: 1 Failed: 1)
  Failed test:  1
  Non-zero exit status: 2
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 12 tests but ran 1.
t/Polyline.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 2
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 1 tests but ran 0.
Files=2, Tests=1,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr  0.01 sys +  0.06 cusr 
+ 0.01 csys =  0.10 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 2/2 test programs. 1/1 subtests failed.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 2

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