How can I install HTML-Parser-3.64 on Perl 5.6? - perl

Question

I am trying to install HTML-Parser-3.64 and I get following report while running make test:
ERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /home/Perl/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib -I/home/Perl/5.6.1-nothread/lib/perl5/5.6.1/sun4.SVR4 -I/home/Perl/5.6.1-nothread/lib/perl5/5.6.1 -e 'use Test::Harness qw(&runtests $verbose); $verbose=0; runtests #ARGV;' t/*.t
t/api_version........ok
t/argspec-bad........ok
t/argspec............ok
t/argspec2...........ok
t/attr-encoded.......ok
t/callback...........ok
t/case-sensitive.....ok
t/cases..............ok
t/comment............ok
t/crashme............ok
t/declaration........ok
t/default............ok
t/document...........ok
t/dtext..............ok
t/entities...........ok 1/17
t/entities...........NOK 17# Failed test (t/entities.t at line 74)
# got: 'Attention Home&#959&#969n&#1257rs...1&#1109t T&#1110&#1084e E&#957&#1257&#1075'
# expected: 'Attention HomeοÏnÓ©rs...1Ñt TÑмe Eνөг'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 17.
t/entities...........dubious
Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
DIED. FAILED test 17
Failed 1/17 tests, 94.12% okay
t/entities2..........ok
t/filter-methods.....ok
t/filter.............ok
t/handler-eof........ok
t/handler............ok
t/headparser-http....ok
t/headparser.........ok
4/15 skipped: Need Unicode support
t/ignore.............ok
t/largetags..........ok
t/linkextor-base.....ok
t/linkextor-rel......ok
t/magic..............ok
t/marked-sect........ok
t/msie-compat........ok
t/offset.............ok
t/options............ok
t/parsefile..........ok
t/parser.............ok
t/plaintext..........ok
t/pod................skipped
all skipped: Test::Pod 1.00 required for testing POD
t/process............ok
t/pullparser.........ok
t/script.............ok
t/skipped-text.......ok
t/stack-realloc......ok
t/textarea...........ok
t/threads............skipped
all skipped: Not configured for threads
t/tokeparser.........ok
t/uentities..........ok 1/26# Looks like you planned 26 tests but ran 1 extra.
t/uentities..........dubious
Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
DIED. FAILED test 27
Failed 1/26 tests, 96.15% okay (less 27 skipped tests: -2 okay, -7.69%)
t/unbroken-text......ok
t/unicode-bom........ok
2/2 skipped: This perl does not support Unicode
t/unicode............skipped
all skipped: This perl does not support Unicode
t/xml-mode...........ok
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/entities.t 1 256 17 1 5.88% 17
t/uentities.t 1 256 26 1 3.85% 27
3 tests and 33 subtests skipped.
Failed 2/48 test scripts, 95.83% okay. 0/338 subtests failed, 100.00% okay.
*** Error code 11
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test_dynamic'
I have Perl version 5.6.1. and 3.64 version of Parser on Solaris 8.
I have seen following similar error reported by another person on internet at http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6653478. But could not see any reply or solution for that.

Answer 1

If you are comfortable with the other test results, and you don't expect to use HTML::Parser for pages which require extended character sets, then you can force an install.
From command-line:
$ perl -MCPAN -e 'force install HTML::Parser'
From CPAN command line:
cpan> force install HTML::Parser
From your build directory (if you'd rather not use CPAN):
mv t/entities.t t/entities.tt
mv t/uentities.t t/uentities.tt
make install

Answer 2

You need to report it to HTML::Parser bug tracker. Cpantesters results are only reports, in many cases automatic, so to gain attention of author you need to use bug tracker.
P.S. Upgrading is also a good idea (in case you have no problems of doing this) - Perl has changed much in 9 years from 5.6.1.