[Bioperl-l] Windows "index" installation failure

[Jonathan Epstein]

Hi,

While I had successfully installed BioPerl 0.70 on a previous Windows 2000 machine, it failed on my current machine (in the end I did 'force install' to get around this, since I don't currently use the indexing feature).  This error occurs for me both with 0.70 and 0.71.


bash-2.05$ perl -v

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall

Binary build 630 provided by ActiveState Tool Corp. http://www.ActiveState.com
Built 20:29:41 Oct 31 2001


-----excerpt from CPAN output ------

t\HTML..............ok
t\Index.............HSMETOO - retrieved length '0' doesn't match known length
34'
t\Index.............ok 1/10i|238775|bbs|65126 - retrieved length '0' doesn't m
ch known length '70'
MMWHISK - retrieved length '0' doesn't match known length '62'
Didn't get sequence 'HSEARLOBE' from index
t\Index.............ok 5/10-------------------- EXCEPTION --------------------
MSG: EMBL stream with no ID. Not embl in my book
STACK Bio::SeqIO::embl::next_seq C:/users/epstein/.cpan/build/bioperl-0.7.1/bl
/lib/Bio/SeqIO/embl.pm:152
STACK Bio::Index::AbstractSeq::fetch C:/users/epstein/.cpan/build/bioperl-0.7.
blib/lib/Bio/Index/AbstractSeq.pm:144
STACK toplevel t\Index.t:103
-------------------------------------------
t\Index.............dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 2, 6-10
        Failed 6/10 tests, 40.00% okay
t\largefasta........ok
t\largepseq.........ok

----- end excerpt -----

Is anyone familiar with this code and/or the error?

- Jonathan