Re: network tests fail for 5b6

Gisle Aas (aas@bergen.sn.no)
Sat, 13 Jan 1996 15:03:14 +0100


> Installed libwww-perl 5b6...all tests OK _except_ network tests.
> 
> Using:
> perl5.001n
> sparc/solaris 2.4
> 
> *************************************************************
> % TEST -v net/http-get.t
> net/http-get........1..2
> GET http://elcaro.com/cgi-bin/lwp/cgi-bin/test?query
>  
> --- HTTP::Response=HASH(0x2048ec) ---
> RC: 500 (Internal Server Error)
> Message: Can't locate auto/Socket/sockaddr_in.al in @INC

You should not use perl5.001n.  This version of perl too buggy and can't run 
libwww-perl-5.  Try to use perl5.001m.  This was the last unofficially 
official stable release of perl.

You should also avoid the the perl5.002beta releases for now.

--Gisle