[Catalyst] Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication under ActivePerl 5.8.7.813

[Matt S Trout]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 06:18:38PM +0000, Will Hawes wrote:
> ActivePerl does not seem to have a PPD available for 
> Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication. I tried to install via cpanp, but it 
> failed:
> 
> Installing Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication
> t\04_authentication....ok
> t\05_password..........ok
> t\06_user..............ok
> t\live_app.............Weak references are not implemented in the 
> version of perl at C:\Perl\site\lib/Catalyst.pm line 18
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\Perl\site\lib/Catalyst.pm line 18.
> Compilation failed in require at t\live_app.t line 14.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t\live_app.t line 14.
> t\live_app.............dubious
>         Test returned status 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
> 
> Given the importance of the Auth plugins to Catalyst as a whole, this is 
> a bit of a problem for anyone on Win32. I can force install the Auth 
> plugin of course, but on IRC it was suggested that the error is due to a 
> bug in ActivePerl and could have much wider effects later.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a fix? The choice of OS is out of my control, but 
> changing Perl distro is feasible provided there is a decent alternative. 
> The choice seems to amount to just PXPerl, which uses cpan/cpanp for 
> module installation. This would be nice, but unfortunately there are 
> several modules (e.g. Template Toolkit) that have so far resisted all my 
> attempts to compile them on Win32.

Your perl dist is b0rked. I just grabbed latest AS perl and weaken works
fine. Try re-installing Scalar::Util ...

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