There are many "yellow" reports for Math::Pari in the smoke test database. They come from failures to download C source code for the library Math::Pari need. Net::FTP and LWP fail (kinda mysteriously); usual `ftp -pinegv' I run for debugging purposes succeeds.
The recent versions of Math::Pari have some code to debug these failures; however, the debugging output says nothing to me (IIRC, most of the code to auto-fetch was contributed). Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Ilya ======================================================= A good example of the report of failure is http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2009/11/msg5926497.html Essentially, the error message is Getting GP/PARI from ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/ Cannot list (Illegal PORT command. ): at utils/Math/PariBuild.pm line 319. Can't fetch file with Net::FTP, now trying with LWP::UserAgent... Not in this directory, trying `ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/OLD/'... then it shows that the response via LWP for ..../OLD is empty (of type text/ftp-dir-listing), and shows that `ftp -pinegv' has no problem getting the listings (for both directories) and the file. The code which emits these messages is in http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/ILYAZ/Math-Pari-2.0304_00108060102/utils/Math/PariBuild.pm starting from require Net::FTP;
