libwww-perl-5.812 fails unicode conversions because of missing modules

libwww-perl-5.808 through libwww-perl-5.812 fail with various
strange errors like:

utf8 "\xFF" does not map to Unicode at \
/common/pkgs/perl-5.10.0-33746/lib/5.10.0/i686-linux-thread-multi/Encode.pm 
\
line 164. at base/message.t line 365

This appears to be fixed by adding the following prereqs to LWP:

Encode::Alias
MIME::Base64

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On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 9:21 PM, David Favor <david@davidfavor.com> wrote:
> libwww-perl-5.808 through libwww-perl-5.812 fail with various
>  strange errors like:
>
>   utf8 "\xFF" does not map to Unicode at \
>
> /common/pkgs/perl-5.10.0-33746/lib/5.10.0/i686-linux-thread-multi/Encode.p
m \
>   line 164. at base/message.t line 365

What kind of perl is this?

>  This appears to be fixed by adding the following prereqs to LWP:
>
>    Encode::Alias
>    MIME::Base64

MIME::Base64 is already an prereq and nothing in LWP use Encode::Alias
directly.  Anyways, it should anyway just be there, if Encode is
there, as it's a standard perl module these days.

--Gisle

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:44 PM, David Favor <david@davidfavor.com> wrote:
> Gisle Aas wrote:
> 
> /common/pkgs/perl-5.10.0-33746/lib/5.10.0/i686-linux-thread-multi/Encode.p
m
> \ 
>
>  Patch 33746 download from here:
>
>    http://public.activestate.com/pub/apc/perl-5.10.x-snap/

I've now re-checked that LWP works without problem with bleadperl
("perl, v5.11.0 DEVEL33761 built for i686-linux-thread-multi") so
there must just be something wrong with the perl you built.  No idea
what it could be.

--Gisle