[Bioperl-l] Bioperl install tests behind firewall

[simon andrews (BI)]

> From: Simon Andrews
>
> The problem is that the test suite in Bioperl doesn't 
> seem to pick up proxy info, so make test takes forever to complete 
> (and seems to hang indefinitely in t/Perl.t).  Any module 
> which needs to do network access just sits for ages, 
> presumably waiting for something to time out.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heikki Lehvaslaiho [mailto:heikki at ebi.ac.uk]
> 
> Simon,
> 
> None of the core developers of bioperl seem to use proxy on regular
> basis. Could you do us a favour and try to track down the offending
> modules and code, and submit a detailed  bug report to our bugzilla.


I've reported this (with a fix) under bug #1482.

Simon.

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Simon Andrews PhD
Bioinformatics Dept
The Babraham Institute

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