CPAN - Error after CPAN installation

Posted on Fri Nov 17 13:08:24 2006 by robertb
Error after CPAN installation
After a ruuning the command:
cpan Date::Calc
and answering yes to all questions, cpan ended with a panic error message after apparently installing correctly. Do I need to worry. Is it dangerous not to upgrade perl and cpan - everything else seems to be working fine?
: : Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Date/Calc/Obje ct.pod Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Date/Calc/Obje ct.pm Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Date::Calc::Object.3pm Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Date::Calc.3pm Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Date::Calendar.3pm Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Date::Calendar::Profiles.3pm Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Date::Calendar::Year.3pm Writing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Date/Calc/.p acklist Appending installation info to /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/perl local.pod /usr/bin/make install -- OK CPAN.pm panic: deep recursion in color_cmd_tmps depth[100] self[CPAN::Module=HAS H(0xa9e7d84)] id[Carp::Clan][root@web2:/root]
My software versions:
# cpan -v cpan script version 1.01 CPAN.pm version 1.61 perl -V : : Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: DEBUGGING MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT Locally applied patches: MAINT18379 Built under linux Compiled at May 19 2006 18:46:50 @INC: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
Many Thanks
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