Perl: Can't Build SGML::Parse::OpenSP in Mac OSX and Proxy Errors

Question

I am running Perl 5.16.2 on OSX 10.9.1 and I am having difficulty installing modules from CPAN. I successfully installed

 sudo cpan App::cpanminus

However, when I try something like

 curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - --sudo App::cpanminus

I get the error

 Proxy must be specified as absolute URI; ''none'' is not at 
 /loader/0x7fde9483ecd8/App/cpanminus/script.pm line 99.

I've tried resetting the HTTP and FTP proxy variables in the CPAN shell using

 perl -MCPAN -e shell

 cpan[1]>  o conf commit http_proxy=''
 cpan[2]>  o conf commit ftp_proxy='' 

however, the error persists.

Also, when I try to install the following package

 sudo cpanm SGML::Parser::OpenSP

I get the error

 --> Working on SGML::Parser::OpenSP
 Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BJ/BJOERN/SGML-Parser-OpenSP-0.994.tar.gz ...    OK
 Configuring SGML-Parser-OpenSP-0.994 ... OK
 Building and testing SGML-Parser-OpenSP-0.994 ... FAIL
 ! Installing SGML::Parser::OpenSP failed. 
 See /Users/markclements/.cpanm/work/1392371338.37987/build.log for details. Retry with --force to force install it.

The relevant error is

 OpenSP.xs:26:10: fatal error: 'OpenSP/ParserEventGeneratorKit.h' file not found

UPDATE:

I installed OpenSP using fink and fink installed it in my root directory

 `/sw/include/OpenSP/ParserEventGeneratorKit.h`

The directory sw was created by fink in my root directory. I'm using sudo cpan SGML::Parser::OpenSP but I can't figure out why it can't find this file ParserEventGeneratorKit.h when attempting the build.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

Proxy must be specified as absolute URI; ''none'' is not

please check your http_proxy, ftp_proxy etc environment variables. If you don't have a proxy unset them or set them to '' but don't set them to 'none'.

Building and testing SGML-Parser-OpenSP-0.994 ... FAIL

This module needs a C-compiler and the OpenSP libraries (libosp + header files). Unfortunatly this requirement is not checked inside the modules Makefile.PL so it tries to build and the build fails.