SA Bugzilla – Bug 6244
M::S::Util::DependencyInfo gives misleading diagnostics and hides a failure reason
Last modified: 2011-10-04 18:26:16 UTC
When some external perl modules fail on a 'require', the SpamAssassin installation procedure reports 'optional module out of date', instead of showing a failure reason. For example: $ perl Makefile.PL [...] optional module out of date: IO::Socket::INET6 optional module out of date: IO::Socket::SSL optional module out of date: Compress::Zlib Trying to load these modules from a command line shows that they are the latest version, but fail to compile for whatever reason, like an incompatible (old) version of perl, or whatever. For example (with perl 5.6.2): $ perl -e 'use IO::Socket::INET6; print IO::Socket::INET6->VERSION,"\n"' Bareword "AF_INET6" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.2/IO/Socket/INET6.pm line 58. $ perl -e 'use IO::Socket::SSL; print IO::Socket::SSL->VERSION,"\n"' Constant name 'HASH(0x815f844)' has invalid characters at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.2/IO/Socket/SSL.pm line 25 $ perl -e 'use Compress::Zlib; print Compress::Zlib->VERSION,"\n"' Can't locate Scalar/Util.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ...) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.2/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9.
moving all open 3.3.1 bugs to 3.3.2
Moving back off of Security, which got changed by accident during the mass Target Milestone move.