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@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ and started from the beginning again and I see exactly the same error.
 
 Is it that I maybe have a too old version of some of the Perl dependencies?  The only mdwn.pm files
 that I have are the two I have just extracted from the new tar file.  There is *no* ./IkiWiki.pm file
+
+> It's interesting that you say you have no ./IkiWiki.pm file, since one is
+> included in the tarball. What happened to it, I wonder? 
+
 so what/where is it loading to satisfy the ....... aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
 
 I wasn't noticing the case of the filename, I'd missed the upper case W and guess what 'find' shows me:-
@@ -53,3 +57,71 @@ about "Can't locate Locale/gettext.pm", presumably that's a missing Perl module,
 sort that out.
 
 
+## Errors when running 'make test'
+
+OK, I've now got it to compile and install and presumably it's basically working.  However there
+are a few errors when I run 'make test'.  Several errors have disappeared by installing more Perl
+stuff (specifically XML::SAX) 
+
+> XML::SAX is a requirement of XML::Simple, which is a documented build
+> requirement. (Only really needed if you'll be using subversion actually).
+
+and one error disappeared when I did a 'make install', i.e. the 'make
+test' has a test which requires IkiWiki to be installed first.
+
+> Yes, that bug is already fixed in subversion for the next release
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+However I'm still getting the following error in 'make test':-
+
+	t/pagename.................ok                                                
+	t/pagespec_match...........ok 1/52Modification of a read-only value attempted at /home/chris/webdev/ikiwiki/blib/lib/IkiWiki.pm line 1023.
+	# Looks like you planned 52 tests but only ran 23.
+	# Looks like your test died just after 23.
+	t/pagespec_match...........dubious                                           
+	        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
+	DIED. FAILED tests 24-52
+	        Failed 29/52 tests, 44.23% okay
+	t/pagespec_merge...........ok                                                
+
+> What version of perl are you using? It seems to have some problem with
+> operator overloading.
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+home$ perl -v
+
+This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i486-linux
+
+## Installation in a non-root enviroment
+I had a pretty hellacious time installing Ikiwiki (largely due to problems
+in Perl) and documented them in [[tips/SharedHosting]].  I'd like to get feedback on the doc and also know if I should file a few bugs to make the installation process a little friendlier to non-root folks.  Thanks for the great app!
+
+
+## Typing error?
+
+[..] Mail::Sendmail, TimeDate, RPC::XML, [..]: should be DateTime? --[[vibrog]]
+
+> No, TimeDate and DateTime are two different CPAN modules. Ikiwiki uses
+> TimeDate. --[[Joey]]
+
+ah, i still don't fully get it, though (the following is slightly shortened):
+
+    $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
+    cpan> install DateTime
+    DateTime is up to date.
+    cpan> install TimeDate
+    Warning: Cannot install TimeDate, don't know what it is.
+    Try the command
+        i /TimeDate/
+    to find objects with matching identifiers.
+
+I'm trying to build IkiWiki on a fresh OpenSuse 10.3 box. I start out with
+
+    $ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Text::Markdown URI HTML::Parser HTML::Template HTML::Scrubber'
+    $ git clone git://git.ikiwiki.info/ ikiwiki && cd ikiwiki
+    $ perl Makefile.PL && make
+
+Are there other prerequisites?
+I also installed all optional Perl modules, except TimeDate.
+
+`make` exits with `make: *** [extra_build] Aborted`, `make test` complains `cannot stat 'ikiwiki.man'`