G'day BernieC,

I assume the output you've shown is from the cpan utility. I had a look at "reports MARIOROY/MCE-1.882.tar.gz": you're correct in that its huge and not particularly useful. Even the link from the last line, "See http://www.cpantesters.org/show/MCE.html for details", wasn't helpful: it redirected then timed out.

A much better way to look at these reports is as follows. I've shown this for MCE; the procedure's the same for most, if not all, modules.

• Find the module on CPAN: https://metacpan.org/pod/MCE
• Follow the "Testers" link: http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=MCE+1.882
• That shows the latest version, 1.882. If you're using a different version, there's a list of links in the "Other versions" column beneath the matrix (table).
• For an MSWin O/S, use the "mswin32" column. Then pick the row that indicates your Perl version. If the cell matching that column & row has a coloured "swatch", that O/S & Perl version combination has been tested. Click on the "swatch" for more details of individual tests.
• You'll sometimes find FAIL or UNKNOWN results which match your own; a comparison can be helpful. In this instance, there were no problems reported for "t/05_mce_child.t": not helpful for your current issue.

As I said above, I've assumed you're using the cpan utility (could be wrong). I don't know how you've set that up or how you ran the installation. I don't know what Perl version you're using. Overall, there's insufficient information to suggest a fix.

If you can provide more verbose output, that would be great. If not, maybe look at the prove utility for detailed feedback. I wrote some notes about prove a day or two ago: possibly useful if you haven't previously used it.

I have Strawberry Perl v5.26.3 on Win10. Purely as a test, I successfully installed MCE.

cpan> install MCE
...
All tests successful.
Files=39, Tests=617,  9 wallclock secs ( 0.12 usr +  0.01 sys =  0.14 
+CPU)
Result: PASS
  MARIOROY/MCE-1.882.tar.gz
  C:\Users\ken\local\opt\strawberry_perl\5_026_003\install\c\bin\gmake
+.exe test -- OK
Running make install
...
  MARIOROY/MCE-1.882.tar.gz
  C:\Users\ken\local\opt\strawberry_perl\5_026_003\install\c\bin\gmake
+.exe install UNINST=1 -- OK
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