Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:01:07 -0800 From: David Marshall <dmarshall@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Resolving Perl 'make test' Errors? Message-ID: <53f158630601200301o3af80c39le8a2c0f6d7a612a5@mail.gmail.com>
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We're running perl 5.8.7_2 (from ports), with a mix of modules installed via ports and CPAN, all on a 6.0-STABLE machine. Someone tried to install WWW::Mechanize from CPAN, and when it tried to do a 'make test', there was an error. If I build the module in ports and go into the work directory and run 'make test' manually, I get the same test error. I usually prefer to install Perl modules through ports when possible, so that portupgrade can take care of them for me. However, one of the shortcomings of the (at least default) way in which ports installs Perl modules is that ports does not run 'make test'. Is there a clever way to have the ports system run 'make test' before installing a Perl module? Most of the /usr/ports/*/p5-*/Makefile files do not have 'test' defined as a target. Does anyone have any advice for how to go about ironing out this problem? My first inclination is to remake each of my p5-* ports and run 'make test' on them manually and then have CPAN reinstall everything that we have installed via CPAN. Thanks in advance!
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