[cgiapp] CAP::Authentication install failure on Perl 5.10 ?

Richard Jones ra.jones at dpw.clara.co.uk
Fri Mar 20 12:30:58 EDT 2009


Graham TerMarsch wrote:
> On March 18, 2009 07:40:04 am Richard Jones wrote:
>> Has anyone successfully installed CAP::Authentication under Perl 5.10?
>> It's failed for me on two separate Ubuntu Intrepid platforms, and I
>> assume it's a Perl 5.10 issue, as recent installs on other Ubuntu
>> platforms running Perl 5.8.8 have all been fine.
>>
>> All failures happen in t/02_config.t - here's an example:
> 
> Richard, I've encountered similar issues with CAP::Authentication on Perl 
> 5.10.
> 
> Near as I can tell, though, the issue is more related to the test suite than 
> the module; I've rejigged the tests here locally to try it out and it worked 
> just fine for me.

Right. In the end I forced it in and it seems to work OK, so that 
suggests it's not a problem with CAP::Auth, or I haven't triggered one 
yet :) Also seems to work OK on Windows, as was pointed out earlier.

> I've spoken to Cees Hek (the CAP::Authen author) about this and am working 
> with him to get a new version put together which addresses these test 
> failures.
> 

Great - look forward to it for future setups.
--
Richard Jones



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