Re: LWP won't install

J and T wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Not sure if this is the correct list or not. I have three different 
> Linux servers for which I have recently updated to Perl 5.8.7. On all 
> three machines I am not able to install LWP using CPAN via Bundle::LWP. 
> All fail with the same error of HTML::Form being the problem:
> 
> html/form.............ok 1/103# Test 99 got: "" (html/form.t at line 476)
> #    Expected: "zero"
> #  html/form.t line 476 is: ok(join(":", 
> $f->find_input("r0")->value_names), "zero");
> html/form.............FAILED test 99
>        Failed 1/103 tests, 99.03% okay


This is due to HTML::TokeParser (part of HTML-Parser-3.47)
which recently added the option "empty_element_tags=>1" to it's default
parser options.

Empty tags like "<hr />"  generate a dummy "end" token without
text (the 'got: "" ' above).  The test script does not expect that token.

Without that empty_element_tags option the attribute list of such a tag 
would contain a boolean attribute with named "/", which is very weird.


> 
> This appears to be the only thing failing at this point.

Force install is safe in this case.



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