CentOS5, MS 4.65.3-1, perl Math modules

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Due to being away a lot I shall be wiping my Gentoo server and installing with Centos5 X86_64 soon, so you will have another tester here aswell :)

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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lee" <t.d.lee at durham.ac.uk>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 4:54:01 PM (GMT) Europe/London
Subject: CentOS5, MS 4.65.3-1, perl Math modules

I have just been installing MailScanner-4.65.3-1 on a freshly installed
CentOS-5 (32-bit) system.


Executive summary:  Math::BigInt, Math::BigRat and bignum installation
problems.



Detail:

I realise that the MS installation says:

#  Do not worry too much about errors from the next command.
#  It is quite likely that some of the Perl modules are
#  already installed on your system.
#
#  The important ones are HTML-Parser and MIME-tools.


BUT...
... I saw the following:

#  Attempting to build and install perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1
#  ...
#  **********************************************************************
#   Attention: After installing this package, you also need to update:
#
#    Math::BigRat             to at least v0.19     (you have v0.15)
#    bignum                   to at least v0.21     (you have v0.17)

Afterwards, "MailScanner -V" showed Math::BigInt still to be an earlier
(pre-installed?) version.  And the "MailScanner -V" optional modules still
included the old (those "you have ...") version numbers.

# [Math::BigRat]
#
#  t/big_ap......ok
#  t/bigfltrt....ok
#  t/bigrat......ok 132/193Can't locate object method "_as_oct" via package "Math::BigInt::Calc" at ../lib/Math/BigRat.pm line 1317.
#  t/bigrat......dubious
#          Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
#  DIED. FAILED tests 172-193
#          Failed 22/193 tests, 88.60% okay

# [bignum]
# ... lots of errors in test beginning...
#   Failed test '(1-$ev) is approx. 0'
#   in t/bigexp.t at line 23.
#          got: '1.00000'
#     expected: '0.00000'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 4.
#  t/bigexp......dubious
#          Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
#  DIED. FAILED test 2
#          Failed 1/4 tests, 75.00% okay
#  t/bigint......Can't locate object method "from_oct" via package "Math::BigInt" at ../lib/bigint.pm line 70.
#  t/bigint......dubious
#          Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
#  DIED. FAILED tests 18-36
#          Failed 19/36 tests, 47.22% okay


Does anyone else see failures with MS 4.65.3-1 doing these modules on a
clean CentOS-5/ia32 machine?  Any thoughts?

Alas my CentOS-5 (which is actually a virtual (VMware) machine at present)
is running liked a blocked drain.  So substantial experimentation on it
isn't really possible.  (I hope to have that rectified by mid-week next
week.)


When I went to CPAN, those various modules then installed consistently
and cleanly.  So it looks like an issue with the MS packaging of them.

(Overall: I'm looking to do a substantial, roll-out of such systems,
across our existing service, so I'm looking to get it all as clean as
possible.)


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