Re: CPAN.pm + Apache::Test

[Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>]

Stas Bekman wrote:
> Stas Bekman wrote:
> 
>> Perrin Harkins wrote:
>>
>>> I'm sure this has been discussed before, but is there any way of doing
>>> something to make Apache::Test not crash and burn when I try to install
>>> it from the CPAN shell?  At the moment I can't install it through the
>>> shell, which also breaks libapreq, Bricolage, etc.  I had to
>>> force the install.  I'd prefer no tests at all to blowing up and killing
>>> my bundle install.
>>>
>>> I suppose this is as much a CPAN shell issue as anything, since there
>>> just isn't a nice way to tell it to skip the tests, or to have it run as
>>> a non-privileged user until the install.
>>
>>
>>
>> This is already resolved in the cvs version, and pending a new 
>> release, after some of the folks here will report that it's all working.
> 
> 
> Oh, from seeing your followup to the modperl list, I can see you were 
> talking about the 'install-as-root' problem and not missing -httpd/-apxs 
> issue (please be more specific in the future). So no, this problem 
> hasn't been resolved.
> 
> I guess instead of dieing we could have prompted the user whether they 
> wanted to skip the test (suggesting the possible implications), but not 
> skip it by default.

I've added this functionality. Please check the current cvs.

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