Hi Galen (and list), Because it seems that this discussion is tending towards Perl code / Perl dependencies, I'm "Cc"ing the koha-developers list, In future followups, I think that I'll remove the "regular" Koha mailing list from the Cc list, for this discussion. My comments / questions are below: On Mon, Jun 8, 2009, Galen Charlton<galen.charlton@liblime.com> wrote:

For what it's worth, I was just able to successfully install HTTP::OAI from CPAN on a clean Debian Lenny box.  Based on the test suite errors you're seeing, I suspect there's a glitch with XML::LibXML or one of the other XML processing dependencies of HTTP::OAI on your box.

Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately, I tried today (9-Jun-2009) to install several (many) other XML-related packages that are in the SLES 11 DVD, but it didn't seem to make any difference. For what it's worth, I found out that "HTTP::OAI", in several of its ".pm" (Perl Module) files, require some XML::LibXML "submodules" (I don't know the correct word for that). For instance, the METS.pm file - located at HTTP-OAI-3.21/lib/HTTP/OAI/Metadata/METS.pm - requires the "XML::LibXML::XPathContext" module. If I try to install "XML::LibXML::XPathContext" from CPAN, then I get an error related to utf-16 (Unicode encoding) and umlauts (see "t/09xpath.t" line below): ---------------------------------------- myhost:~/HTTP-OAI-3.21/lib/HTTP/OAI/Metadata # cpan cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.94) ReadLine support enabled cpan[1]> install XML::LibXML::XPathContext CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18) Going to read '/root/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:26:58 GMT CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.68) Going to read 37 yaml files from /root/.cpan/build/ CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9711) ............................................................................DONE Restored the state of 37 (in 0.9044 secs) Running install for module 'XML::LibXML::XPathContext' Running make for P/PA/PAJAS/XML-LibXML-1.69.tar.gz Has already been unwrapped into directory /root/.cpan/build/XML-LibXML-1.69-R2RtfP Has already been made Running make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/01basic.t ................... 1/3 Compiled against libxml2 version: 20701 Running libxml2 version: 20701 t/01basic.t ................... ok t/02parse.t ................... ok t/03doc.t ..................... ok t/04node.t .................... ok t/05text.t .................... ok t/06elements.t ................ ok t/07dtd.t ..................... ok t/08findnodes.t ............... ok t/09xpath.t ................... 1/57 # Test 54 got: "\xFE\xFF" (t/09xpath.t at line 142) # Expected: "utf-16 test with umlauts: \xE4\xF6\xFC\xC4\xD6\xDC\xDF" # t/09xpath.t line 142 is: skip( # Test 57 got: "\xFE\xFF" (t/09xpath.t at line 156) # Expected: "utf-16 test with umlauts: \xE4\xF6\xFC\xC4\xD6\xDC\xDF" # t/09xpath.t line 156 is: skip( t/09xpath.t ................... Failed 2/57 subtests t/10ns.t ...................... ok [snipped most output...] t/80registryleak.t ............ ok t/90threads.t ................. ok Test Summary Report ------------------- t/09xpath.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 57 Failed: 2) Failed tests: 54, 57 Files=37, Tests=1954, 6 wallclock secs ( 0.16 usr 0.37 sys + 3.92 cusr 1.89 csys = 6.34 CPU) Result: FAIL Failed 1/37 test programs. 2/1954 subtests failed. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255 PAJAS/XML-LibXML-1.69.tar.gz /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK //hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try: reports PAJAS/XML-LibXML-1.69.tar.gz Running make install make test had returned bad status, won't install without force Failed during this command: PAJAS/XML-LibXML-1.69.tar.gz : make_test NO ---------------------------------------- I *do* have XML::LibXML installed, from the "perl-XML-LibXML" software package in the SLES 11 DVD that I installed using the yast tool: ---------------------------------------- myhost:~/HTTP-OAI-3.21/lib/HTTP/OAI/Metadata # rpm -qa | grep -i xml-libxml perl-XML-LibXML-1.66-1.14 perl-XML-LibXML-Common-0.13-70.7 myhost:~/HTTP-OAI-3.21/lib/HTTP/OAI/Metadata # perl -MXML::LibXML -e 'print $XML::LibXML::VERSION, "\n"' 1.66 ---------------------------------------- If I try to install the "XML::LibXML" Perl module from CPAN, then it tries to install version 1.69 (instead of the existing 1.66) of the same module, but it fails with the same error regarding utf-16 and umlauts: ---------------------------------------- cpan[1]> install XML::LibXML CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18) Going to read '/root/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:26:58 GMT CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.68) Going to read 37 yaml files from /root/.cpan/build/ CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9711) ............................................................................DONE Restored the state of 37 (in 0.9181 secs) Running install for module 'XML::LibXML' Running make for P/PA/PAJAS/XML-LibXML-1.69.tar.gz Has already been unwrapped into directory /root/.cpan/build/XML-LibXML-1.69-R2RtfP Has already been made Running make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/01basic.t ................... 1/3 Compiled against libxml2 version: 20701 Running libxml2 version: 20701 t/01basic.t ................... ok t/02parse.t ................... ok t/03doc.t ..................... ok t/04node.t .................... ok t/05text.t .................... ok t/06elements.t ................ ok t/07dtd.t ..................... ok t/08findnodes.t ............... ok t/09xpath.t ................... 1/57 # Test 54 got: "\xFE\xFF" (t/09xpath.t at line 142) # Expected: "utf-16 test with umlauts: \xE4\xF6\xFC\xC4\xD6\xDC\xDF" # t/09xpath.t line 142 is: skip( # Test 57 got: "\xFE\xFF" (t/09xpath.t at line 156) # Expected: "utf-16 test with umlauts: \xE4\xF6\xFC\xC4\xD6\xDC\xDF" # t/09xpath.t line 156 is: skip( t/09xpath.t ................... Failed 2/57 subtests t/10ns.t ...................... ok [snipped most output...] Test Summary Report ------------------- t/09xpath.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 57 Failed: 2) Failed tests: 54, 57 Files=37, Tests=1954, 6 wallclock secs ( 0.17 usr 0.36 sys + 3.80 cusr 2.05 csys = 6.38 CPU) Result: FAIL Failed 1/37 test programs. 2/1954 subtests failed. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255 PAJAS/XML-LibXML-1.69.tar.gz /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK //hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try: reports PAJAS/XML-LibXML-1.69.tar.gz Running make install make test had returned bad status, won't install without force Failed during this command: PAJAS/XML-LibXML-1.69.tar.gz : make_test NO ---------------------------------------- Any additional hints, please? :-/ Thanks again! Cheers, Ricardo