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I'm trying to build Win32::Printer with Freeimage.dll support (under
windows xp using the MS free compilers). The default build is to have
it without FreeImage support when you install it using 'c:\perl\bin
\cpan' , so I am manually unzipping the source ans running

I uploaded Language::Lisp::ECLs module which depends on existance of ECL
lisp.
Makefile.PL dies with proper message if this lisp is not seen on computer.
However there are FAIL reports from smokers with exactly this error message:

I am trying to use Net::SMTP to send e-mail from a CGI script in
a hosting environment (not my own server). The server (which I
have control) requires authentication (naturally), and I already
tested that I can use Net::SMTP from other machine (not that

[meta: I apologize in advance if this is a FAQ, but I could not get to
mail-archive.com to search the group's archive]
Can one challenge the result of a CPAN-testers test result?  If so, how?
I see several erroneous FAIL reports for modules of mine, and I think

Not the same thing as "How to challenge a cpan-testers test result?",
but related, perhaps.
On my most recent release to CPAN, everybody is complaining --
t/html.........ok

I have a base class which is abstract, and various concrete
implementations of it that might be chosen in different circumstances
(different OSes, different modules installed). I'd like a "magic
constructor" that attempts to find "the best" subclass... Problem is,

As this has started cropping up a little more, now that the cpan-testers
no longer sends the reports out, and prompted by Eric's post yesterday,
I've added a little form to the CPAN Testers Statistics site [1].
[1] http://perl.grango.org

I get these errors when i try to compile a '.c' file that includes 'perl.h'
and 'XSUB.h'
===================================================================================
In file included

I hope someone can help out this novice test writer.  I have a module that
runs several test scripts, and recently they have started to fail on some
tester's machines.  The tests work fine for me, and I can't see anything
in the Test::More documentation that tells me what's going ...

Summary: there appears to be a bug with the perl module Win32::API, calling
functions that return a float or a double.
*** I have eliminated the "stdcall v cdecl" newby-trap as an explanation!
***

I am trying to use the perl module Spreadsheet::WriteExcel to create a
new XLS file and write into it, however in my case the name of the xls
file has to be entered by the user and it can not be fixed. So to
achieve this write something like this in my code where $XLSPath is

hi,  I come across  problem.I don't know what to do .
       install bugzilla version 3.0.4
      install  activeperl version 5.8.7
       have four modules don't install, as follows:

I never had much luck with the Version.pm module. Either because I wasn't in
the mood to read the documentation or plain dumb. In any case the versioning
scheme X.Y.Z is a non sense. It works nicely for someone not doing version
control but for people using one a module version ...

I can't get POE::Component::Jabber to install, it seems to be failing
some tests but teh output doesn't seem to indicate what is failing or
why. Any clues?
Here's the output:

I have a few dozen Perl functions. I need to run those functions in a
handful of different sequences, depending on the input data and user
choices. Sometimes I need to add functions to, or remove functions
from, the sequence--even while the sequence is running.