[vox-tech] cpan and botched installation of Image::Timeline

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Jul 21, 2005, at 9:31 AM, David Hummel wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:07:51AM -0700, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
>>
>> Being my first time using CPAN to install a new perl module, I thought
>> that it would be a piece of cake...
>
> I would suggest using CPANPLUS instead.
>

I will check this out...

>> I attempted to install the module Image::Timeline like this:
>>
>> $ cpan
>>
>> cpan> install Image::Timeline
>>
>> ... it downloaded and installed GD first, and then started compiling
>> the Image::Timeline module
>> ...however one of the tests failed, and would not install. I forced  
>> the
>> install to see if it would work anyways, but alas a simple script that
>> calls this module always fails.
>>
>> here is the low down on the module:
>> http://search.cpan.org/~kwilliams/Image-Timeline-0.11/Timeline.pm
>>
>> Right now I am stuck as to what I need to do in order to
>> 1. remove this module from my local machine
>
> If the module installed a packlist, it should be somewhere like:

[snip]

found it, and removed all of the files!

So, I was able to attempt the re-install of Image::Timeline, and here  
is the output:

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cpan> install Image::Timeline
Running install for module Image::Timeline
Running make for K/KW/KWILLIAMS/Image-Timeline-0.11.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
    
ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/K/KW/KWILLIAMS/Image-Timeline 
-0.11.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
   ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/K/KW/KWILLIAMS/CHECKSUMS
Checksum for  
/root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/K/KW/KWILLIAMS/Image-Timeline 
-0.11.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /root/.cpan/build for sizes
Image-Timeline-0.11/
Image-Timeline-0.11/Build.PL
Image-Timeline-0.11/Changes
Image-Timeline-0.11/Makefile.PL
Image-Timeline-0.11/MANIFEST
Image-Timeline-0.11/META.yml
Image-Timeline-0.11/README
Image-Timeline-0.11/SIGNATURE
Image-Timeline-0.11/t/
Image-Timeline-0.11/t/common.pl
Image-Timeline-0.11/t/date_format.t
Image-Timeline-0.11/t/gif.t
Image-Timeline-0.11/t/png.t
Image-Timeline-0.11/t/testdata.txt
Image-Timeline-0.11/t/truth.gif
Image-Timeline-0.11/t/truth.png
Image-Timeline-0.11/t/truth_format.gif
Image-Timeline-0.11/t/truth_format.png
Image-Timeline-0.11/Timeline.pm

   CPAN.pm: Going to build K/KW/KWILLIAMS/Image-Timeline-0.11.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Image::Timeline
cp Timeline.pm blib/lib/Image/Timeline.pm
Manifying blib/man3/Image::Timeline.3pm
   /usr/bin/make  -- OK
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"  
"test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/date_format....ok 1/5# Failed test 5 in t/date_format.t at line 37
#  t/date_format.t line 37 is: ok &write_and_compare($t,  
't/testimage_format', 't/truth_format', $format);
t/date_format....FAILED test 5
         Failed 1/5 tests, 80.00% okay
t/gif............ok
t/png............ok
Failed Test     Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
-------
t/date_format.t                5    1  20.00%  5
Failed 1/3 test scripts, 66.67% okay. 1/17 subtests failed, 94.12% okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
   /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
Running make install
   make test had returned bad status, won't install without force

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.... so it looks like something is missing, or messed up in the final  
test of date_format...

I noticed that there was a reference to "ExtUtils::Command::MM", so i  
installed that without issue... however the install of Image::Timeline  
still does not pass its tests...




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Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341