hopefully someone out there can help!
i just upgraded from slackware 10.2, to slackware 11 days ago- everything has been fully operational, but i want to install Tk, and trying to do this via CPAN, i get errors, and Tk does not install =( ... i run slack 11 with linux kernel 2.6.1 athlon xp 1700+, 1gig RAM, can someone help? i can post more information if needed ;

> perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Tk
[it gets downloaded, compiled, then.....]
............

PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl5.8.8 "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/JP.t t/KR.t t/Require.t t/Trace.t t/X.t t/after.t t/autoload.t t/balloon.t t/browseentry-grabtest.t t/browseentry-subclassing.t t/browseentry.t t/browseentry2.t t/button.t t/create.t t/cursor.t t/dash.t t/dialogbox.t t/entry.t t/fbox.t t/fileevent.t t/fileselect.t t/font.t t/fork.t t/geomgr.t t/iso8859-1.t t/leak.t t/list.t t/listbox.t t/listvar.t t/magic.t t/mega.t t/mwm.t t/optmenu.t t/photo.t t/pixmap.t t/progbar.t t/regexp.t t/slaves.t t/trace1.t t/widget.t t/wm-time.t t/wm.t t/zzHList.t t/zzPhoto.t t/zzScrolled.t t/zzText.t t/zzTixGrid.t
t/after......................ok
t/autoload...................ok
t/balloon....................ok
t/browseentry-grabtest.......ok
t/browseentry-subclassing....ok
t/browseentry................ok
t/browseentry2...............ok
t/button.....................ok
t/create.....................ok
t/cursor.....................ok
t/dash.......................ok
t/dialogbox..................ok
t/entry......................ok
15/336 skipped: various reasons
t/fbox.......................ok
t/fileevent..................ok
t/fileselect.................ok
t/font.......................ok
t/fork.......................ok
t/geomgr.....................ok
t/iso8859-1..................ok
t/JP.........................skipped
all skipped: locale's 'ascii' cannot represent Japanese.
t/KR.........................skipped
all skipped: locale's 'ascii' cannot represent Korean.
t/leak.......................ok
t/list.......................ok
t/listbox....................ok
4/437 skipped: various reasons, 3/437 unexpectedly succeeded
t/listvar....................ok
t/magic......................ok
t/mega.......................ok
t/mwm........................ok
t/optmenu....................ok
t/photo......................ok
4/100 skipped: various reasons
t/pixmap.....................ok
t/progbar....................ok
t/regexp.....................ok
t/Require....................ok
t/slaves.....................ok
t/Trace......................ok
t/trace1.....................ok
t/widget.....................ok
t/wm-time....................ok
t/wm.........................ok
t/X..........................ok
t/zzHList....................ok
t/zzPhoto....................ok
t/zzScrolled.................NOK 66# Test 66 got: "589x341+0+32" (t/zzScrolled.t at line 104 fail #2)
# Expected: "589x341+0+0" (Sizechk: geometry has not changed not reset for -height => 24+(5))
# t/zzScrolled.t line 104 is: ok($newgeo, $oldgeo, "Sizechk: geometry has not changed not reset" .
t/zzScrolled.................NOK 94# Test 94 got: "589x341+17+32" (t/zzScrolled.t at line 104 fail #4)
# Expected: "589x341+0+32" (Sizechk: geometry has not changed not reset for -width => 80+(5))
t/zzScrolled.................FAILED tests 66, 94
Failed 2/94 tests, 97.87% okay
t/zzText.....................ok
t/zzTixGrid..................ok
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/zzScrolled.t 94 2 2.13% 66 94
(3 subtests UNEXPECTEDLY SUCCEEDED), 2 tests and 23 subtests skipped.
Failed 1/47 test scripts, 97.87% okay. 2/2054 subtests failed, 99.90% okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
/usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
Running make install
make test had returned bad status, won't install without force



;; FYI - other devices on my box;;

> lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 70)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

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thanks,

agentdcooper

cpan> force install Tk

that worked, prints hello world, i will call it good for now =)