Sunday 16 September 2012

Test::Most not automatically installed with cpanm. Some inner dependencies failed

After installing the the CVFtools, I went to test the perl scripts with
perl vcftools/perl/test.t
But failed becuase I needed Test::More. I tried to install it but failed:
$  cpanm Test::Most.pm
--> Working on Test::Most
Fetching http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/O/OV/OVID/Test-Most-0.31.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring Test-Most-0.31 ... OK
==> Found dependencies: Exception::Class
--> Working on Exception::Class
Fetching http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/Exception-Class-1.33.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring Exception-Class-1.33 ... OK
Building and testing Exception-Class-1.33 ... FAIL
! Installing Exception::Class failed. See /home/pmg/.cpanm/build.log for details.
! Bailing out the installation for Test-Most-0.31. Retry with --prompt or --force.
Looking at .cpanm/build.log I saw that Class/Data/Inheritable.pm was missing. The dependency was not automatically picked and installed so I installed by hand. Then tried again Test::Most, and again Exception-Class was failing. This time needed Devel::StackTrace. I installed this one also by hand and now all went OK.
cpanm Devel::StackTrace
cpanm Test::More
These missing dependencies are not uncommon in CPAN but are a bit annoying, mainly if your cpanm install action becomes large and the failed module is at the beginning and your last line says, 11 packages installed (all dependencies of your wanted package, but the wanted one is not installed). In situations like this, is easy to skip that your modules was not installed.

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