CPAN general build error (or fail during "install Module::ScanDeps")

[hans....@gmail.com]

Hi

What steps to do when CPAN report an error?

1. cpan[1]> clean
2. rm -rf ~/.cpan
3. https://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_report_bug_module

The right answer might be: Read what the error message is and solve the problem.
I think I have tried that but there must be something generally wrong with my cpan installation. I even tried removing (rename) ~/.cpan without luck.

So my first question is: Where do I start learning to fix cpan build errors?

Second question if the first question does not solve it: Module::ScanDeps

cpan[1]> install Test::Requires
Running install for module 'Test::Requires'
Running make for T/TO/TOKUHIROM/Test-Requires-0.10.tar.gz
Has already been unwrapped into directory /root/.cpan/build/Test-Requires-0.10-fsacgn
Has already been made
Running make test
Has already been tested successfully
Running make install
Already done

cpan[2]> install Module::ScanDeps
...
Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/0-pod.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
Non-zero exit status: 2
Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
t/13-static_prefork_test.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
Non-zero exit status: 2
Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
t/5-pluggable_fake.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
Non-zero exit status: 2
Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
Files=18, Tests=2795, 3 wallclock secs ( 0.22 usr 0.01 sys + 1.86 cusr 0.27 csys = 2.36 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 3/18 test programs. 0/2795 subtests failed.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
RSCHUPP/Module-ScanDeps-1.27.tar.gz
one dependency not OK (Test::Requires); additionally test harness failed
/usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
//hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try:
reports RSCHUPP/Module-ScanDeps-1.27.tar.gz
Running make install
make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
Failed during this command:
RSCHUPP/Module-ScanDeps-1.27.tar.gz : make_test NO one dependency not OK (Test::Requires); additionally test harness failed

best regards

[John D Groenveld]

In article <c0c6546e-c970-4fe3...@googlegroups.com>,

<hans....@gmail.com> wrote:
>What steps to do when CPAN report an error?

What versions?
$ perl -V
$ perl -MCPAN -le 'print $CPAN::VERSION'

John
groe...@acm.org

[hans....@gmail.com]

onsdag den 25. marts 2020 kl. 20.59.34 UTC+1 skrev John D Groenveld:
> In article <c0c6546e-c970-4fe3...@googlegroups.com>,
> <hans....@gmail.com> wrote:
> >What steps to do when CPAN report an error?
>
> What versions?
> $ perl -V
> $ perl -MCPAN -le 'print $CPAN::VERSION'

# perl -MCPAN -le 'print $CPAN::VERSION'
1.9800

# perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 16 subversion 3) configuration:

Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=3.10.0-862.2.3.el7.x86_64, archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi
uname='linux x86-038.build.eng.bos.redhat.com 3.10.0-862.2.3.el7.x86_64 #1 smp mon apr 30 12:37:51 edt 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux '
config_args='-des -Doptimize=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -Dccdlflags=-Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Dlddlflags=-shared -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -Wl,-z,relro -DDEBUGGING=-g -Dversion=5.16.3 -Dmyhostname=localhost -Dperladmin=root@localhost -Dcc=gcc -Dcf_by=Red Hat, Inc. -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl5 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib64/perl5 -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl -Darchlib=/usr/lib64/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl -Darchname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi -Dlibpth=/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64 -Duseshrplib -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Dusedtrace=/usr/bin/dtrace -Duselargefiles -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db -Ui_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm -Duseperlio -Dinstallusrbinperl=n -Ubincompat5005 -Uversiononly -Dpager=/usr/bin/less -isr -Dd_gethostent_r_proto -Ud_endhostent_r_proto -Ud_sethostent_r_proto -Ud_endprotoent_r_proto -Ud_setprotoent_r_proto -Ud_endservent_r_proto -Ud_setservent_r_proto -Dscriptdir=/usr/bin -Dusesitecustomize'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
optimize='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic',
cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include'
ccversion='', gccversion='4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-34)', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='gcc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector'
libpth=/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64
libs=-lresolv -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc -lgdbm_compat
perllibs=-lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
gnulibc_version='2.17'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib64/perl5/CORE'
cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -Wl,-z,relro '


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES MULTIPLICITY PERLIO_LAYERS
PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV USE_64_BIT_ALL
USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE
USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF
USE_REENTRANT_API USE_SITECUSTOMIZE
Locally applied patches:
Fedora Patch1: Removes date check, Fedora/RHEL specific
Fedora Patch3: support for libdir64
Fedora Patch4: use libresolv instead of libbind
Fedora Patch5: USE_MM_LD_RUN_PATH
Fedora Patch6: Skip hostname tests, due to builders not being network capable
Fedora Patch7: Dont run one io test due to random builder failures
Fedora Patch9: Fix find2perl to translate ? glob properly (RT#113054)
Fedora Patch10: Fix broken atof (RT#109318)
Fedora Patch13: Clear $@ before "do" I/O error (RT#113730)
Fedora Patch14: Do not truncate syscall() return value to 32 bits (RT#113980)
Fedora Patch15: Override the Pod::Simple::parse_file (CPANRT#77530)
Fedora Patch16: Do not leak with attribute on my variable (RT#114764)
Fedora Patch17: Allow operator after numeric keyword argument (RT#105924)
Fedora Patch18: Extend stack in File::Glob::glob, (RT#114984)
Fedora Patch19: Do not crash when vivifying $|
Fedora Patch20: Fix misparsing of maketext strings (CVE-2012-6329)
Fedora Patch21: Add NAME headings to CPAN modules (CPANRT#73396)
Fedora Patch22: Fix leaking tied hashes (RT#107000) [1]
Fedora Patch23: Fix leaking tied hashes (RT#107000) [2]
Fedora Patch24: Fix leaking tied hashes (RT#107000) [3]
Fedora Patch25: Fix dead lock in PerlIO after fork from thread (RT#106212)
Fedora Patch26: Make regexp safe in a signal handler (RT#114878)
Fedora Patch27: Update h2ph(1) documentation (RT#117647)
Fedora Patch28: Update pod2html(1) documentation (RT#117623)
Fedora Patch29: Document Math::BigInt::CalcEmu requires Math::BigInt (CPAN RT#85015)
RHEL Patch30: Use stronger algorithm needed for FIPS in t/op/crypt.t (RT#121591)
RHEL Patch31: Make *DBM_File desctructors thread-safe (RT#61912)
RHEL Patch32: Use stronger algorithm needed for FIPS in t/op/taint.t (RT#123338)
RHEL Patch33: Remove CPU-speed-sensitive test in Benchmark test
RHEL Patch34: Make File::Glob work with threads again
RHEL Patch35: Fix CRLF conversion in ASCII FTP upload (CPAN RT#41642)
RHEL Patch36: Do not leak the temp utf8 copy of namepv (CPAN RT#123786)
RHEL Patch37: Fix duplicating PerlIO::encoding when spawning threads (RT#31923)
RHEL Patch38: Add SSL support to Net::SMTP (CPAN RT#93823) [1]
RHEL Patch39: Add SSL support to Net::SMTP (CPAN RT#93823) [2]
RHEL Patch40: Add SSL support to Net::SMTP (CPAN RT#93823) [3]
RHEL Patch41: Add SSL support to Net::SMTP (CPAN RT#93823) [4]
RHEL Patch42: Do not overload ".." in Math::BigInt (CPAN RT#80182)
Built under linux
Compiled at Jun 13 2018 07:46:41
%ENV:
PERL5LIB=":/progs/fks/udv/perlmod"
@INC:
/progs/fks/udv/perlmod
/usr/local/lib64/perl5
/usr/local/share/perl5
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib64/perl5
/usr/share/perl5
.

Thanks!

[John D Groenveld]

In article <a8b60d66-e556-4a2d...@googlegroups.com>,

<hans....@gmail.com> wrote:
># perl -MCPAN -le 'print $CPAN::VERSION'
>1.9800
>
># perl -V
>Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 16 subversion 3) configuration:

Does Module::ScanDeps build manually?
$ wget https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/R/RS/RSCHUPP/Module-ScanDeps-1.27.tar.gz
$ gzip -dc Module-ScanDeps-1.27.tar.gz | tar xf -
$ cd Module-ScanDeps-1.27
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make test

John
groe...@acm.org

[hans....@gmail.com]

torsdag den 26. marts 2020 kl. 03.26.51 UTC+1 skrev John D Groenveld:

> Does Module::ScanDeps build manually?

Yes!

Actually my goal was to install PDF-API2-Simple and ScanDeps was just one of the errors. Now I have manually insatlled:

CPAN-Meta-2.150010
File-Remove-1.58
Module-Install-1.19
Module-ScanDeps-1.27
PDF-API2-2.037
PDF-API2-Simple-1.1.4

as some of these gave errors during make and PDF-API2-Simple is working now.

So what is the conclusion?
"If the cpan program fails, install manually"

[John D Groenveld]

In article <69fdd50e-b6fb-4474...@googlegroups.com>,

<hans....@gmail.com> wrote:
>So what is the conclusion?
> "If the cpan program fails, install manually"

I could not reproduce your issue with a more modern Perl and CPAN.
You might try upgrading CPAN and its dependencies:
<URL:https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/CPAN/scripts/cpan>
# cpan -O

John
groe...@acm.org