POE-Component-Client-Keepalive under Solaris

As the test results on CPAN indicate I am not the only one having
problems with this module under Solaris. To keep my app going I
installed version 0.260 from backpan but for easy distribution I would
like it to work with the most recent version.
Anything I could do to help fixing the problem(s)? Though I must admit I
am no expert at all for the inner workings of POE. I just use
POE::Component::Client::HTTP from a cookbook recipe and
POE-Component-Client-Keepalive is a dependency.

-Michael