Neophyte having trouble Installing XML::Parser module on OS X

[UncleRic]

Environment: Mac OS X (10.4.10) on MacBook Pro

I'm a Perl Neophyte. I've downloaded the XML::Parser module and am attempting to install it in my working directory (referenced via PERL5LIB env):

PERL5LIB=/Users/Ric/Library/Perl/
 

[/Users/Ric/Library/perl]ls
XML-Parser-2.34/        XML-Parser-2.34.tar
 

Per inclosed README, I performed the following:
1) Build the makefile:

[/Users/Ric/Library/perl/XML-Parser-2.34]ls
Changes         MANIFEST        Parser/         README          t/
Expat/          Makefile.PL     Parser.pm       samples/
 
[/Users/Ric/Library/perl/XML-Parser-2.34]perl MakeFile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for XML::Parser::Expat
Writing Makefile for XML::Parser
 

2) Perform the make:

[/Users/Ric/Library/perl/XML-Parser-2.34]make
cp Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-cp932.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-cp932.enc
cp Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-7.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-7.enc
cp Parser/Style/Tree.pm blib/lib/XML/Parser/Style/Tree.pm
cp Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-9.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-9.enc
...
Manifying blib/man3/XML::Parser::Style::Tree.3
Manifying blib/man3/XML::Parser::Style::Stream.3
 

3) make test:

[/Users/Ric/Library/perl/XML-Parser-2.34]make test
make[1]: Entering directory `/Users/Ric/Library/Perl/XML-Parser-2.34/Expat'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/Users/Ric/Library/Perl/XML-Parser-2.34/Expat'
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/astress.........ok                                                         
t/cdata...........ok                                                         
t/decl............ok                                                         
t/defaulted.......ok                                                         
t/encoding........"my" variable $p masks earlier declaration in same scope at t/encoding.t line 94.
t/encoding........FAILED test 3                                              
        Failed 1/6 tests, 83.33% okay
t/external_ent....Couldn't load LWP based external entity handler
Switching to file-based external entity handler
 (To avoid this message, use NoLWP option to XML::Parser)
t/external_ent....ok                                                         
t/file............ok                                                         
t/finish..........ok                                                         
t/namespaces......ok                                                         
t/parament........Couldn't load LWP based external entity handler
Switching to file-based external entity handler
 (To avoid this message, use NoLWP option to XML::Parser)
t/parament........ok                                                         
t/partial.........ok                                                         
t/skip............ok                                                         
t/stream..........ok                                                         
t/styles..........ok                                                         
Failed Test  Stat Wstat Total Fail  List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/encoding.t                6    1  3
Failed 1/14 test scripts. 1/130 subtests failed.
Files=14, Tests=130,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.46 cusr +  0.14 csys =  0.60 CPU)
Failed 1/14 test programs. 1/130 subtests failed.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
 
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Question: What is the signifigance of this test and what is it saying in layman's terms?

4) Checking the Build Library:

[/Users/Ric/Library/perl/XML-Parser-2.34]ls -R blib/
arch/   bin/    lib/    man1/   man3/   script/
 
blib//arch:
auto/
 
blib//arch/auto:
XML/
 
blib//arch/auto/XML:
Parser/
 
blib//arch/auto/XML/Parser:
Expat/
 
blib//arch/auto/XML/Parser/Expat:
Expat.bs        Expat.bundle*
 
blib//bin:
 
blib//lib:
XML/    auto/
 
blib//lib/XML:
Parser/         Parser.pm
 
blib//lib/XML/Parser:
Encodings/              Expat.pm                LWPExternEnt.pl         Style/
 
blib//lib/XML/Parser/Encodings:
Japanese_Encodings.msg  iso-8859-2.enc          iso-8859-7.enc          windows-1252.enc        x-sjis-jdk117.enc
README                  iso-8859-3.enc          iso-8859-8.enc          x-euc-jp-jisx0221.enc   x-sjis-jisx0221.enc
big5.enc                iso-8859-4.enc          iso-8859-9.enc          x-euc-jp-unicode.enc    x-sjis-unicode.enc
euc-kr.enc              iso-8859-5.enc          windows-1250.enc        x-sjis-cp932.enc
 
blib//lib/XML/Parser/Style:
Debug.pm        Objects.pm      Stream.pm       Subs.pm         Tree.pm
 
blib//lib/auto:
XML/
 
blib//lib/auto/XML:
Parser/
 
blib//lib/auto/XML/Parser:
Expat/
 
blib//lib/auto/XML/Parser/Expat:
 
blib//man1:
 
blib//man3:
XML::Parser.3                   XML::Parser::Style::Objects.3   XML::Parser::Style::Tree.3
XML::Parser::Expat.3            XML::Parser::Style::Stream.3
XML::Parser::Style::Debug.3     XML::Parser::Style::Subs.3
 
blib//script:
 
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The above looks 'okay' to me.

Question: Can I access this module from my perl script? What would be the correct syntax to do so?

Here the calling routine (ric.pl):

#!/usr/bin/perl
use diagnostics; 
 
use XML::Parser;
 
print "Done.";
 

Here's the result:

[/Users/Ric/workarea/perl]perl ric.pl
Can't locate XML/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /Users/Ric/Library/Perl/ /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.9.5/darwin-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.9.5 /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.9.5/darwin-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.9.5 /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.9.5/darwin-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.9.5 /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at ric.pl line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ric.pl line 3 (#1)
    (F) You said to do (or require, or use) a file that couldn't be
    found. Perl looks for the file in all the locations mentioned in @INC,
    unless the file name included the full path to the file.  Perhaps you
    need to set the PERL5LIB or PERL5OPT environment variable to say where
    the extra library is, or maybe the script needs to add the library name
    to @INC.  Or maybe you just misspelled the name of the file.  See
    perlfunc/require and lib.
 
Uncaught exception from user code:
        Can't locate XML/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /Users/Ric/Library/Perl/ /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.9.5/darwin-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.9.5 /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.9.5/darwin-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.9.5 /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.9.5/darwin-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.9.5 /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at ric.pl line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ric.pl line 3.
 at ric.pl line 3
 
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I'm lost here.
What am I missing?

Regards,

Ric.

P.S. The following is some supplemental info:

[/Users/Ric/workarea/perl]perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 9 subversion 5) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=darwin, osvers=8.10.1, archname=darwin-2level
    uname='darwin ricmac.ci.north-las-vegas.nv.us 8.10.1 darwin kernel version 8.10.1: wed may 23 16:33:00 pdt 2007; root:xnu-792.22.5~1release_i386 i386 i386 '
    config_args='-des -Dprefix=/opt/local -Dccflags=-I'/opt/local/include' -Dldflags=-L/opt/local/lib -Dvendorprefix=/opt/local -Dusedevel -Dcc=/usr/bin/gcc-4.0'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='/usr/bin/gcc-4.0', ccflags ='-I/opt/local/include -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include',
    optimize='-O3',
    cppflags='-no-cpp-precomp -I/opt/local/include -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc', ldflags ='-L/opt/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /opt/local/lib /usr/lib
    libs=-ldbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc
    perllibs=-ldl -lm -lc
    libc=/usr/lib/libc.dylib, so=dylib, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-L/opt/local/lib -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib'
 
 
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
                        USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO
  Built under darwin
  Compiled at Oct 12 2007 11:02:55
  %ENV:
    PERL5LIB="/Users/Ric/Library/Perl/"
  @INC:
    /Users/Ric/Library/Perl/
    /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.9.5/darwin-2level
    /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.9.5
    /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.9.5/darwin-2level
    /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.9.5
    /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.9.5/darwin-2level
    /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.9.5
    /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
    .
 
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