FAIL SystemPerl-1.282 i686-linux-64int-ld 2.6.24-16-generic

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Dear Wilson Snyder,
    
This is a computer-generated report for SystemPerl-1.282
on perl 5.8.8 patch 34066, created by CPAN-Reporter-1.1556. 

Thank you for uploading your work to CPAN.  However, there was a problem
testing your distribution.

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Sections of this report:

    * Tester comments
    * Program output
    * Prerequisites
    * Environment and other context

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TESTER COMMENTS
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Additional comments from tester: 

this report is from an automated smoke testing program
and was not reviewed by a human for accuracy

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PROGRAM OUTPUT
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Output from '/home/david/perl/5.8.x/bin/perl Makefile.PL':


%Error: 'flex' must be installed to build

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PREREQUISITES
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Prerequisite modules loaded:

    No requirements found

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ENVIRONMENT AND OTHER CONTEXT
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Environment variables:

    AUTOMATED_TESTING = 1
    LANG = en_US.UTF-8
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH = /home/david/opt/subversion/lib
    PATH = .:/home/david/bin:/home/david/git/utility-scripts:/home/david/perl/current/bin:.:/home/david/bin:/home/david/git/utility-scripts:/home/david/perl/current/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
    PERL5LIB = 
    PERL5OPT = 
    PERL5_CPANPLUS_IS_RUNNING = 7659
    PERL5_CPAN_IS_EXECUTING = /home/david/.cpan/build/SystemPerl-1.282-UZZK9F/Makefile.PL
    PERL5_CPAN_IS_RUNNING = 7659
    PERL5_CPAN_IS_RUNNING_IN_RECURSION = 29916,7659
    PERL_CR_SMOKER_CURRENT = SystemPerl-1.282
    PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT = 1
    SHELL = /bin/bash
    TERM = screen

Perl special variables (and OS-specific diagnostics, for MSWin32):

    $^X = /home/david/perl/5.8.x/bin/perl
    $UID/$EUID = 1000 / 1000
    $GID = 1000 4 20 24 25 29 30 44 46 107 115 116 1000
    $EGID = 1000 4 20 24 25 29 30 44 46 107 115 116 1000

Perl module toolchain versions installed:

    Module              Have   
    ------------------- -------
    CPAN                1.92_63
    Cwd                 3.2701 
    ExtUtils::CBuilder  0.23   
    ExtUtils::Command   1.14   
    ExtUtils::Install   1.50_01
    ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.44   
    ExtUtils::Manifest  1.51_01
    ExtUtils::ParseXS   2.19   
    File::Spec          3.2701 
    Module::Build       0.2808 
    Module::Signature   n/a    
    Test::Harness       3.12   
    Test::More          0.80   
    YAML                0.66   
    YAML::Syck          1.05   
    version             n/a    


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Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8 patch 34066) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.24-16-generic, archname=i686-linux-64int-ld
    uname='linux manticore 2.6.24-16-generic #1 smp thu apr 10 13:23:42 utc 2008 i686 gnulinux '
    config_args='-de -Uversiononly -Dusedevel -Dusemorebits -Dprefix=/home/david/perl/5.8.x -Dmydomain=.hyperbolic.net -Dcf_email=dagolden@cpan.org -Dperladmin=dagolden@cpan.org -Dcc=gcc'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=define
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='long double', nvsize=12, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    libc=/lib/libc-2.7.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.7'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib'

• FAIL SystemPerl-1.282 i686-linux-64int-ld 2.6.24-16-generic by DAGOLDEN