I actually had this problem too. I never found a solution, so in the end I
just gave up and force installed. It's also on RH7.1 with perl 5.6.1 I'd
be interested in the answer if someone finds it....
Issac
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Bloodgood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "mod_perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 19:49
Subject: [Probably OT] Make test fails in Net::Telnet
> Hi, I'm building a new box intended to be a mod_perl/database machine, and
> in the interests of making it as up-to-date as possible, I installed
RedHat
> 7.1, then upgraded to perl 5.6.1.
>
> Next step, of course, is to hit CPAN and install the basics, starting with
> Bundle::CPAN.
>
> But Net::Telnet barfs on make test.
>
> I looked on usenet, and there was a post w/ a guy who had this same
problem,
> but no reply. His post describes the problem clearly:
>
> ----snip----
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Subject: select weirdness/Net::Telnet install barf
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.modules, comp.lang.perl.misc
> Date: 2001-06-15 15:21:18 PST
>
> On my RedHat 7.1 i586 (laptop) system perl 5.6.1
> Net::Telnet won't install using CPAN since 'make test'
> barfs.
> The select call to read on a dummy handle returns 1!
> briefly:
>
> socket SOCK, AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0;
> $bitmask = '';
> vec($bitmask, fileno(SOCK), 1) = 1;
> $nfound = select ($bitmask, undef, undef, 0);
>
> $nfound is 1 with SOCK allegedly ready to read!
> Of course actually reading from it produces a SIGPIPE
> since it's not connected to anything.
> The 'socket' & 'select' calls themselves don't barf.
> I'm afraid to force install if there's something deep down
> wrong w/my select.
>
> Any ideas greatly appreciated -thanks!
> Mark
>
> ----snip----
>
> [rob@dyn5 /home/rob]$ perl -V
> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration:
> Platform:
> osname=linux, osvers=2.4.2-2, archname=i386-redhat-linux
> uname='linux dyn5.empire2.com 2.4.2-2 #1 sun apr 8 20:41:30 edt 2001
> i686 unknown '
>
>
>
>
>
config_args='-des -Dcc=gcc -Darchname=i386-redhat-linux -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -
>
Dccdlflags=-rdynamic -Dprefix=/usr -Dscriptdir=/usr/bin -Dsitelib=/usr/lib/p
>
erl5/site_perl -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -
>
Dman3ext=3pm -Doptimize=-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Uusethreads -Uuselargefi
> les -Duseshrplib -Dd_dosuid -Ud_setresuid -Ud_setresgid'
> hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
> usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef
> usemultiplicity=undef
> useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=undef usesocks=undef
> use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
> Compiler:
> cc='gcc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing',
> optimize='-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686',
> cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing'
> ccversion='', gccversion='2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85)',
> gccosandvers=''
> intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
> d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
> ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
> lseeksize=4
> alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
> Linker and Libraries:
> ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
> libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
> libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
> perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
> libc=/lib/libc-2.2.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
> Dynamic Linking:
> dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef,
>
ccdlflags='-rdynamic -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-redhat-linux/CORE'
> cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'
>
>
> Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
> Compile-time options:
> Built under linux
> Compiled at Jul 23 2001 17:28:02
> %ENV:
> PERL5LIB="/home/rob/lib/perl5:/home/rob/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005"
> @INC:
> /home/rob/lib/perl5
> /home/rob/lib/perl5
> /home/rob/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-redhat-linux
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/i386-redhat-linux/5.6.1
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
>
> tips? ideas? suggestions?
>
> TIA!
>
> L8r,
> Rob
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use Disclaimer qw/:standard/;
>
>
