Re: Can't test without successful make

Owen wrote:
When make is run, there is usually some reporting of progress. When an error occurs, you need to read the last few lines to determine what went wrong.

So go back to the make part and see if you can psyche out what's wrong

I just realised I sent this to the wrong Perl list (was meant for beginners-perl), my apologies for this.

I hope no one minds in the interim that I copy and paste my output.

Running make for G/GA/GAAS/HTML-Parser-3.55.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Checksum for /home/bclark/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/HTML-Parser-3.55.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /home/bclark/.cpan/build for sizes
HTML-Parser-3.55/
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/xml-mode.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/textarea.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/filter-methods.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/crashme.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/handler-eof.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/unicode-bom.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/argspec-bad.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/dtext.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/callback.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/entities.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/argspec.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/comment.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/declaration.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/offset.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/handler.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/plaintext.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/case-sensitive.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/cases.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/marked-sect.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/document.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/filter.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/tokeparser.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/linkextor-rel.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/entities2.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/skipped-text.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/linkextor-base.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/default.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/headparser.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/uentities.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/headparser-http.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/script.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/stack-realloc.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/pod.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/magic.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/options.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/attr-encoded.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/unicode.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/argspec2.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/ignore.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/largetags.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/unbroken-text.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/msie-compat.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/api_version.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/parsefile.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/parser.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/process.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/t/pullparser.t
HTML-Parser-3.55/eg/
HTML-Parser-3.55/eg/hlc
HTML-Parser-3.55/eg/hanchors
HTML-Parser-3.55/eg/htextsub
HTML-Parser-3.55/eg/htitle
HTML-Parser-3.55/eg/hstrip
HTML-Parser-3.55/eg/hrefsub
HTML-Parser-3.55/eg/hform
HTML-Parser-3.55/eg/hdump
HTML-Parser-3.55/eg/htext
HTML-Parser-3.55/lib/
HTML-Parser-3.55/lib/HTML/
HTML-Parser-3.55/lib/HTML/Entities.pm
HTML-Parser-3.55/lib/HTML/PullParser.pm
HTML-Parser-3.55/lib/HTML/Filter.pm
HTML-Parser-3.55/lib/HTML/TokeParser.pm
HTML-Parser-3.55/lib/HTML/LinkExtor.pm
HTML-Parser-3.55/lib/HTML/HeadParser.pm
HTML-Parser-3.55/util.c
HTML-Parser-3.55/Makefile.PL
HTML-Parser-3.55/hints/
HTML-Parser-3.55/hints/solaris.pl
HTML-Parser-3.55/Parser.pm
HTML-Parser-3.55/TODO
HTML-Parser-3.55/MANIFEST
HTML-Parser-3.55/tokenpos.h
HTML-Parser-3.55/Changes
HTML-Parser-3.55/mkhctype
HTML-Parser-3.55/Parser.xs
HTML-Parser-3.55/mkpfunc
HTML-Parser-3.55/hparser.c
HTML-Parser-3.55/README
HTML-Parser-3.55/hparser.h
HTML-Parser-3.55/typemap
Removing previously used /home/bclark/.cpan/build/HTML-Parser-3.55

CPAN.pm: Going to build G/GA/GAAS/HTML-Parser-3.55.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for HTML::Parser
-- NOT OK
Running make test
Can't test without successful make
Running make install
make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

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