Template Toolkit install problem

[jdtoronto]

Esteemed monks,

In my RH8.0 machine with Perl 5.8.1 I have tried installing Template Toolkit - basically so I can look at some of the examples given in various articles and tutorials on Class::DBI.

But I get one simple error at the end of the process which I cannot get past. The result of 'make test' is in the readmore.

[root@posiedon3 Template-Toolkit-2.10]# make test
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/johnday/.cpan/build/Template-Toolki
+t-2.10/xs'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/johnday/.cpan/build/Template-Toolkit
+-2.10/xs'
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "
+test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/args...........ok
t/autoform.......ok 20/25FAILED 21:  - template text 9 did not match e
+xpected
t/autoform.......FAILED test 21
        Failed 1/25 tests, 96.00% okay
t/base...........ok
t/binop..........ok
t/block..........ok
t/blocks.........ok
t/capture........ok
t/case...........ok
t/cgi............ok
t/chomp..........ok
t/compile1.......ok
t/compile2.......ok
t/compile3.......ok
t/compile4.......ok
t/compile5.......ok
t/config.........ok
t/constants......ok
t/context........ok
t/datafile.......ok
t/date...........ok
t/dbi............ok
t/debug..........ok
t/directive......ok
t/directry.......ok
t/document.......ok
t/dom............skipped
        all skipped: XML::DOM v1.27 or later not installed
t/domview........skipped
        all skipped: XML::DOM v1.27 or later not installed
t/dumper.........ok
t/error..........ok
t/evalperl.......ok
t/exception......ok
t/factory........ok
t/file...........ok
t/filter.........ok
t/foreach........ok
t/format.........ok
t/gd.............skipped
        all skipped: GD module(s) not installed
t/gdgraph........skipped
        all skipped: GD module(s) not installed
t/gdgraph3d......skipped
        all skipped: GD module(s) not installed
t/gdtext.........skipped
        all skipped: GD module(s) not installed
t/gdtextalign....skipped
        all skipped: GD module(s) not installed
t/gdtextwrap.....skipped
        all skipped: GD module(s) not installed
t/html...........ok
t/image..........skipped
        all skipped: Neither Image::Info nor Image::Size installed
t/include........ok
t/iterator.......ok
t/latex2dvi......ok
t/latex2pdf......ok
t/latex2ps.......ok
t/leak...........ok
t/list...........ok
t/macro..........ok
t/object.........ok
t/output.........ok
t/parser.........ok
t/plugins........ok
t/plusfile.......ok
t/pod............skipped
        all skipped: Pod::POM not installed
t/prefix.........ok
t/proc...........ok
t/process........ok
t/provider.......ok
t/ref............ok
t/rss............ok
t/service........ok
t/skel...........ok
t/stash-xs.......ok
t/stash..........ok
t/stashc.........ok
t/stop...........ok
t/strcat.........ok
t/string.........ok
t/switch.........ok
t/table..........ok
t/tags...........ok
t/template.......ok
t/text...........ok
t/throw..........ok
t/tiedhash.......ok
t/try............ok
t/url............ok
t/vars...........ok
t/varsv1.........ok
t/view...........ok
t/vmeth..........ok
t/while..........ok
t/wrap...........ok
t/wrapper........ok
t/xmlstyle.......ok
t/xpath..........ok
Failed Test  Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------
t/autoform.t               25    1   4.00%  21
10 tests skipped.
Failed 1/90 test scripts, 98.89% okay. 1/2585 subtests failed, 99.96% 
+okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255

If anybody can offer any adive I would be grateful.

jdtoronto

[Chmrr]

The Text::Autoformat tests are unreliable under perl 5.8.0 and higher (and perhaps in general, alas). There's the following code in t/autoform.t:

if ($] == 5.008) {
     skip_all('Text::Autoformat tests unreliable under 5.8.0');
}

..so while it looks like 5.8.0 was accounted for, 5.8.1 wasn't. In any case, the test failure is harmless; go ahead and install anyways.

Update: As an aside, it's generally considered nice to only ask your question in one place at a time. What, you didn't think the Monks would come up with an answer? ;>

[talexb]

[PodMaster]

But I get one simple error at the end of the process which I cannot get past

Why can't you get past it (you can still install the module)?

Having a failing test should not be that critical to a user, especially if the test suite is 99.96% okay. I'd say that anything above %90 percent okay is okay ;)(acceptable) depending on what kind of distribution you're dealing with and the nature of the failures (like in this case, i'd say it's ok).

Here's how testing Template-Toolkit goes on my machine (please note that I run nmake test TEST_FILES="t\provider.t t\gd.t t\filter.t t\compile3.t" TEST_VERBOSE=1 )

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