Mailscanner 3.20-2 RPM probs

[Steve Freegard]

Hi all,

I've just tried installing 3.20-2 from the RPM and hit the following error.
I suspect it is unrelated to mailscanner and is a problem with MIME::Tools -

<<snip>
[root at trip root]# rpm -ivh mailscanner-3.20-2.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
   1:mailscanner            ###########################################
[100%]
Shutting down sendmail: [  OK  ]
MailScanner: About to install Perl modules you do not already have
MailScanner: Module IO::Stringy 1.211 already installed
MailScanner: Module MIME::Base64 2.11 already installed
MailScanner: Installing Perl Module IsABundle
Checking for Net::SMTP...ok
Checking for Net::Domain...ok
Checking for IO::Handle...ok
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Mail
cp Mail/Field/AddrList.pm blib/lib/Mail/Field/AddrList.pm
cp Mail/Mailer/rfc822.pm blib/lib/Mail/Mailer/rfc822.pm
cp Mail/Util.pm blib/lib/Mail/Util.pm
AutoSplitting blib/lib/Mail/Util.pm (blib/lib/auto/Mail/Util)
cp Mail/Mailer/sendmail.pm blib/lib/Mail/Mailer/sendmail.pm
cp Mail/Mailer/smtp.pm blib/lib/Mail/Mailer/smtp.pm
cp Mail/Mailer/test.pm blib/lib/Mail/Mailer/test.pm
cp Mail/Field.pm blib/lib/Mail/Field.pm
cp Mail/Mailer.pm blib/lib/Mail/Mailer.pm
cp Mail/Mailer/mail.pm blib/lib/Mail/Mailer/mail.pm
cp Mail/Address.pm blib/lib/Mail/Address.pm
cp Mail/Filter.pm blib/lib/Mail/Filter.pm
cp Mail/Alias.pm blib/lib/Mail/Alias.pm
cp Mail/Send.pm blib/lib/Mail/Send.pm
cp Mail/Header.pm blib/lib/Mail/Header.pm
cp Mail/Field/Date.pm blib/lib/Mail/Field/Date.pm
cp Mail/Internet.pm blib/lib/Mail/Internet.pm
AutoSplitting blib/lib/Mail/Internet.pm (blib/lib/auto/Mail/Internet)
cp Mail/Cap.pm blib/lib/Mail/Cap.pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mail::Field::AddrList.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mail::Address.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mail::Filter.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mail::Alias.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mail::Util.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mail::Send.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mail::Header.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mail::Internet.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mail::Field.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mail::Mailer.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mail::Cap.3pm
*** ERROR: unterminated C<...> at line 143 in file Mail/Cap.pm
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib
-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i
86-linux -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 -e 'use Test::Harness qw(&runtests
$verbose); $
erbose=0; runtests @ARGV;' t/*.t
t/extract...........ok
t/header............ok
t/internet..........ok
t/mailcap...........ok
t/mailer............ok
t/require...........ok
t/send..............ok
All tests successful.
Files=7, Tests=95,  1 wallclock secs ( 0.74 cusr +  0.08 csys =  0.82 CPU)
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Field::AddrList.3pm
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Address.3pm
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Filter.3pm
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Alias.3pm
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Util.3pm
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Send.3pm
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Header.3pm
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Internet.3pm
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Field.3pm
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Mailer.3pm
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Cap.3pm
Writing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Mail/.packlist
Appending installation info to /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/perllocal.pod
MailScanner: Module File::Spec 0.82 already installed
MailScanner: Installing Perl Module MIME::Tools
==== Patching MIME::Tools module (see Bugtraq)
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.21813: mime-tools-patch.txt: No such file or directory
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.21813: cd: MIME-tools-5.411a: No such file or directory
Can't open perl script "Makefile.PL": No such file or directory
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `test'.  Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
MailScanner: Module File::Temp 0.12 already installed
MailScanner: Module Convert::TNEF 0.17 already installed
MailScanner: Perl modules installed
<<snip>>

I'm running MailScanner on RedHat Linux 7.3.

Any ideas??

Kind regards,



Steve Freegard
Systems Manager
Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.
DDI: +44 1903 82 8594
FAX: +44 1903 82 8620



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