Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for DB::Ent cp Ent.pm blib/lib/DB/Ent.pm Manifying blib/man3/DB::Ent.3 PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /Users/cpanrun/pristine/5.8.7/bin/perl "-Iblib/lib" "-Iblib/arch" test.pl 1..14 ok 1 - use DB::Ent DBI connect('test:localhost','cpanrun',...) failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) at blib/lib/DB/Ent.pm line 835 ok 2 - entity factory instantiated ok 3 - connection string verified Can't call method "prepare" on unblessed reference at blib/lib/DB/Ent.pm line 1042. # Looks like you planned 14 tests but only ran 3. # Looks like your test died just after 3. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255