Mail::ClamAV [was: Re: SAVI-Perl/Sophos on RedHat Enterprise 4]

[Pete Russell]

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Mine still fails at make on RHEL4

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Mail::ClamAV
/usr/bin/perl -Mblib -MInline=NOISY,_INSTALL_ -MMail::ClamAV -e1 0.16
blib/arch
Can't open blib/lib/Mail/ClamAV.pm: No such file or directory.
Can't locate Mail/ClamAV.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/root/.cpan/build/Mail-ClamAV-0.16/blib/arch
/root/.cpan/build/Mail-ClamAV-0.16/blib/lib
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
make: *** [ClamAV.inl] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
cp ClamAV.pm blib/lib/Mail/ClamAV.pm
   /usr/bin/make -j3 -- NOT OK
Running make test
   Can't test without successful make
Running make install
   make had returned bad status, install seems impossible




Rick Cooper wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
>>Behalf Of David Lee
>>Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 6:09 AM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: Mail::ClamAV [was: Re: SAVI-Perl/Sophos on RedHat
>>Enterprise 4]
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, David Lee wrote:
>>
>>
>>>[...]
>>>We too have this problem (FC3, also ancient RH 7.3).  Rick Cooper has
>>>found that this seems to be an error within its tests (i.e. Mail::ClamAV
>>>itself is OK).  From an amended version of its "t/Mail-ClamAV.t" that he
>>>gave me, I derived the following patch.
>>>[...]
>>
>>On Friday, I emailed the author (Scott Beck) of Mail::ClamAV about these
>>issues, and he has released version 0.16 over the weekend.  This seems to
>>have fixed most of the failures in the test suite, but it a separate set
>>of residual failures at the end, related to the "scanbuff" interface onto
>>ClamAV itself.  I understand from the "clamav-devel" list that this
>>interface is deprecated (scheduled for removal at ClamAV 0.90).
>>
>>From the MailScanner perspective, I think the experience of people on this
>>list with Mail::ClamAV 0.14 is that none of these failures in that
>>module's test suite is important.  I've just installed 0.16 and that, too,
>>seems fine.
>>
>>I've also written to the author again suggesting that he might simply
>>remove his "scanbuff" tests.
>
>
> What is truly funny about this is the fact that the author's own docs
> suggest you not use the scanbuff interface, and quotes the maintainers as to
> why
>
> I also noted that he fixed (he just added CL_SCAN_STDOPT to cover the bases)
> everything except the scanbuff. But looking at the change log I also note
> that other tests passed on his system "for some reason". If you look at his
> test code it is doomed to failure anyway because the API docs clearly state
> the buffer must be unpacked, de-mimed, completely processed before passing
> it to cl_scanbuiff and he is passing it a .zip file... so I really wonder
> how it passes on his system?
>
> Rick
>
>
>
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