-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 May 2003 23:28, Derek Fountain wrote:
When I follow the instructions you gave me it created a dir "/root/.cpan" and put the files there. So, of course, using the "install" flag for the libs went straight to the .cpan dir and found what it was looking for. So, question. Do I try re-get and then install (due to possible bad download) or use the "force" flag?
Install with force. If it's 97.7% happy, then it'll do what you want. :o)
The main reason Perl modules fail their tests, in my experience, is because the tests are run as root, and the testcases bail out of doing unsafe things when run with full priviledges.
I'm not sure if this is the case here - I suspect not since finding nodes is merely a tree lookup. The 2.3% of failed tests are more likely to be borderline cases where the test and code aren't quite in sync. Remember, you're dealing with 2 very different packages here: libxml2 and Perl. Just force the install and try it. I bet it works.
Yep the force got it to go. And you were correct in that 97.60% happy on the fail so, if your right then I shouldn't have any real problems. I be back it something crops up. Thanks all, and very cool to use CPAN, this feature rocks. Cheers, Curtis :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+s1KV7WVLiDrqeksRAtGEAJ0eBPIgs96qCcJ0sJEc8s3qTjJKFACghzLk JRrzW4tkQI0Z14MaZMydExI= =p6gf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----