No idea what the problem is offhand. I'll try to find some time to debug this during the weekend.
--Gisle On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 03:34, Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-ab...@ilyaz.org> wrote: > There are many "yellow" reports for Math::Pari in the smoke test > database. They come from failures to download C source code for the > library Math::Pari need. Net::FTP and LWP fail (kinda mysteriously); > usual `ftp -pinegv' I run for debugging purposes succeeds. > > The recent versions of Math::Pari have some code to debug these > failures; however, the debugging output says nothing to me (IIRC, most > of the code to auto-fetch was contributed). Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > Ilya > > ======================================================= > A good example of the report of failure is > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2009/11/msg5926497.html > Essentially, the error message is > > Getting GP/PARI from ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/ > Cannot list (Illegal PORT command. > ): at utils/Math/PariBuild.pm line 319. > > Can't fetch file with Net::FTP, now trying with LWP::UserAgent... > Not in this directory, trying > `ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/OLD/'... > > then it shows that the response via LWP for ..../OLD is empty (of type > text/ftp-dir-listing), and shows that `ftp -pinegv' has no problem > getting the listings (for both directories) and the file. > > The code which emits these messages is in > http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/ILYAZ/Math-Pari-2.0304_00108060102/utils/Math/PariBuild.pm > > starting from > require Net::FTP; > >
