root@boss[XML-Simple-2.16]#perl Makefile.PL
Checking installed modules ...
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Fatal error: Your default XML parser (XML::SAX::PurePerl) is broken.
There are known bugs in the PurePerl parser included with version 0.13
and 0.14 of XML::SAX. The XML::Simple tests will fail with this parser.
One way to avoid the problem is to install XML::SAX::Expat - it will
install itself as the system default XML parser and then you will be able
to install XML::Simple successfully. XML::SAX::Expat is also much faster
than XML::SAX::PurePerl so you probably want it anyway.
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