gnatsweb problem installing on RedHat 6.2

[Terje Trane]

I have installet gnats 3.113 and I think I got it to work as it should, but
now I try gnatsweb 2.6 on a RedHat 6.2 system.

After updating the CGI.pm and installing MIME::Base64 and realizing that I
had to make a /etc/gnats-db.conf even though I haven't installed multiple
databases the 'make test' succeded and I could run install.

Now I try http://<server>/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl and get a page telling me:

Software error:
Function CGI::Object::cgi_error does not exist at
/home/httpd/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl line 3059
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (root@localhost), giving this
error message and the time and date of the error.

And in the error log for Apache I get:
[Thu Mar 15 16:10:44 2001] gnatsweb.pl: Name "main::global_no_cookies" used
only
 once: possible typo at /home/httpd/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl line 2996.
[Thu Mar 15 16:10:44 2001] gnatsweb.pl: Function CGI::Object::cgi_error does
not
 exist at /home/httpd/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl line 3059

Being quite unfamiliar to Perl I need some help understanding the message.

For your convenience, here is a part of the code:

   3045 sub main
   3046 {
   3047   # Load gnatsweb-site.pl if present.  Die if there are errors;
   3048   # otherwise the person who wrote gnatsweb-site.pl will never know
it.
   3049   do './gnatsweb-site.pl' if (-e './gnatsweb-site.pl');
   3050   die $@ if $@;
   3051
   3052   # Make sure nobody tries to swamp our server with a huge file
attachment.
   3053   # Has to happen before 'new CGI'.
   3054   $CGI::POST_MAX = $site_post_max if defined($site_post_max);
   3055
   3056   # Create the query object.  Check to see if there was an error,
which
   3057   # happens if the post exceeds POST_MAX.
   3058   $q = new CGI;
   3059   if ($q->cgi_error())
   3060   {
   3061     print $q->header(-status=>$q->cgi_error());
   3062           $q->start_html('Error');
   3063     page_heading('Initialization failed', 'Error');
   3064     print $q->h3('Request not processed: ', $q->cgi_error());
   3065     exit();
   3066   }
   3067
   3068   $sn = $q->script_name;
   3069   my $cmd = $q->param('cmd') || ''; # avoid perl -w warning
   3070

(POST_MAX and also site_post_max exist two places in the code, all are in
the extract above).

Any ideas? How do I go on debugging? What info do you need to help me?

I don't need a gnatsweb-site.pl if gnatsweb and gnatsd runs on the same
host, right?
install says:
 3. If your gnats server is on the same host as your web server,
       skip this step.  If not, create 'gnatsweb-site.pl', the site
       configuration file.  Read gnatsweb.pl, and follow the directions.
       Basic configuration requires only that you specify the host +
       port number of your gnats server.

Anyway, I made one and still the same error.

The 'make test' said
CGI version 2.56 required--this is only version 2.46
so I looked for a newer and found a version 3.01 at
http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/cgi_docs.html
I downloaded CGI.pm-3.01.tar.gz unpacked it and ran "perl Makefile.PL"
Then 'make test' ran (only complaining about MIME::Base64 that I installed
using the suggestion in the "install"-file in gnuweb-2.6.tar.gz.)

Was this the wrong file?