It looks like a bogus (and empty) version of the Test distribution has been uploaded to CPAN, and may have found its way into some smoke testers.
Here is an RT on the issue: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=75541 And here is the bogus distribution: http://search.cpan.org/~wwolf/Test/ Here is an example of a smoke test failure that probably relates to the issue: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/1787768e-6721-11e1-ad88-7ac0a0f8bb33 The correct Test.pm distribution is: http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/Test/ I've sent an email to wwolf requesting he delete his empty Test distribution, but naturally the email bounced as undeliverable. This is probably my cue to drop in the Test::More version of the test suite that I've been holding back for awhile now, not wanting to tempt fate by introducing new potential test suite bugs. But if there's any way to resolve the Test issue so that I can leave the existing test suite for Inline::CPP in place just a little longer I'd appreciate hearing suggestions. I thought about placing a BUILD_REQUIRES in Makefile.PL that specifies a minimum version number greater than that of the bogus distribution, but I'm not sure whether that would be enough of a hint to the various cpan installers to shift from one author's dist. to another. Dave -- David Oswald daosw...@gmail.com