Cannot install module Unicode::Map8 using cpan on CentOS 5 - perl

Question

I am trying to install Unicode::Map8 module using cpan on CentOS5 with 2.6.18-371.9.1.el5 kernel. So when I do cpan> install Unicode::Map8 as sudo I get the following result:
Running install for module Unicode::Map8
Running make for G/GA/GAAS/Unicode-Map8-0.13.tar.gz
Is already unwrapped into directory /root/.cpan/build/Unicode-Map8-0.13
Has already been processed within this session
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/callback....ok
t/compat......ok
t/map8........dubious
Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)
t/unistr......ok
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
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t/map8.t 0 11 ?? ?? % ??
Failed 1/4 test scripts, 75.00% okay. 0/6 subtests failed, 100.00% okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
/usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
Running make install
make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
The perl version is v5.8.8.
I tried this on my machine and on server that runs the same config.
Any Idea what might be the reason?

Answer 1

Unicode::Map8 is available as a pre-built package for Centos in the EPEL repository. Once you have configured your system to use EPEL (and that's well worth doing as they have a lot more CPAN modules that the standard Centos repos) you can install it using yum.
$ sudo yum install perl-Unicode-Map8