When asked to install Bugzilla at work, I wasn't concerned since FreeBSD has it in the ports tree. However, when it came to installing the necessary Perl modules I came accross a few issues. To install Bugzilla, the documentation at http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/2.22/html/index.html was being used. Three of the required modules were producing "/usr/bin/make --NOT-OK" errors. This result could not be replicated on all machines so it does not appear to be a problem with the modules themselves. I found workarounds for all three modules. Here is how to get them installed if you experience the same snags and are limited on time. First was the MIME::Parser module. MIME::Parser also had a "must use force to install" message in it's error. From the Perl CPAN shell, accessed by using `/usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell`, simply type `make -f MIME::Parser`. Second was the Mail::Mailer module. After some research I found that this module is included in /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-Tools. I suspect there is some difference in modules as the port version installed without any complaints. Finnally was the Image::Magick module. ImageMagick's Makefile shows an option USE_PERL5=YES. In experimentation I installed ImageMagick without any other knobs. To ensure that this resolved the problem I ran Bugzilla's checksetup.pl again. That's all there was to the process. There wasn't enough time to actually research what the cause of these problems was. If anyone else has come across these please feel free to post your findings. Anyone else in a similar situation should find this to be an acceptable and fast workaround with a larger footprint being the only consequence.
