Its been logged in the CPAN RT: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=120926#txn-1717278

I was going to summarize the issue but I just read through the ticket again and I'm not sure I understand it yet, so I'll leave you to parse it. A non technical summary is it looks like Log::Log4perl lost its maintainer.

I'm guessing we need a couple utilities at the perl infrastructure level: One to "fork" a cpan dist in to github (for dists that aren't on github, but L4P already is), and then an update to cpan/cpanm to get it to prefer where to get a specific dist from.

"I'm guessing we need a couple utilities at the perl infrastructure level: One to "fork" a cpan dist in to github (for dists that aren't on github, but L4P already is), and then an update to cpan/cpanm to get it to prefer where to get a specific dist from."

First, create the repository on your Github. I created one called simply "log4perl", then:

cpan -g Log::Log4perl
tar -xzvf Log-Log4perl-1.49.tar.gz
cd Log-Log4perl-1.49
git init
git add .
git remote add origin https://stevieb9@github.com/stevieb9/log4perl.gi
+t
git push -u origin master
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Now you've make a fork of the 1.49 version of the distribution on your own Github.

Now, when you want to install with cpanm:

cd c:\users\steveb\repos
git clone https://github.com/stevieb9/log4perl
cd log4perl
cpanm .
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Or, do a make dist in your repository, add the newly created tarball into the repo and do a push, then:

cpanm https://github.com/stevieb9/log4perl/blob/master/Log4Perl-1.53.t
+ar.gz
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See also gitpan, in this case https://github.com/gitpan/Log-Log4perl.

First, create the repository on your Github.

Actually, the thing I needed to do first was to create a repos directory on my local machine, and then within it run:

cpan -g Log::Log4perl
tar -xzvf Log-Log4perl-1.49.tar.gz
cd Log-Log4perl-1.49
git init
git add .
git remote add origin https://github.com/TBlazer66/log4perl.git 
git push -u origin master
cpanm . --force
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Test script:

C:\Users\tblaz\Documents\evelyn>perl 1.perl_log.pl

C:\Users\tblaz\Documents\evelyn>type test.log
2019/12/24 22:25:14 Debug this!
2019/12/24 22:25:14 Info this!
2019/12/24 22:25:14 Warn this!
2019/12/24 22:25:14 Error this!
2019/12/24 22:25:14 Fatal this!

C:\Users\tblaz\Documents\evelyn>type 1.perl_log.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use 5.016;
use Log::Log4perl qw(:easy);

Log::Log4perl->easy_init( { level   => $DEBUG,
                            file    => ">>test.log" } );

    # Logs to test.log via stealth logger
DEBUG("Debug this!");
INFO("Info this!");
WARN("Warn this!");
ERROR("Error this!");

some_function();

sub some_function {
        # Same here
    FATAL("Fatal this!");
}
C:\Users\tblaz\Documents\evelyn>
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I was very happy to see such quality responses to my question. Thank you. Perl is such a good activity for Xmas eve.

As a side note, you can also apply a patch to the test:

@@ -448,6 +448,7 @@
 log4perl.appender.Logfile.header_text = This is a nice header.
 log4perl.appender.Logfile.syswrite = 1
 log4perl.appender.Logfile.layout = Log::Log4perl::Layout::SimpleLayou
+t
+log4perl.appender.Logfile.mode = clobber
 );

Log::Log4perl->init(\$data);
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As a side note, you can also apply a patch to the test:

Can you elaborate as to how this is done?

C:\Users\tblaz\Documents\evelyn>type 1.patch.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;    # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11108769
use warnings;
@@ -448,6 +448,7 @@
 log4perl.appender.Logfile.header_text = This is a nice header.
 log4perl.appender.Logfile.syswrite = 1
 log4perl.appender.Logfile.layout = Log::Log4perl::Layout::SimpleLayou
+t
+log4perl.appender.Logfile.mode = clobber
 );

Log::Log4perl->init(\$data);
C:\Users\tblaz\Documents\evelyn>
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The file isn't a Perl script, it's basically a unified diff that is commonly fed into the patch program (originally written by Larry Wall) to apply the patches automatically. Typically, the filename is included in the diff output, so in this case I don't think patch can handle this format, but this patch is simple enough: it's telling you to insert the line "log4perl.appender.Logfile.mode = clobber" after the line "log4perl.appender.Logfile.layout = Log::Log4perl::Layout::SimpleLayout" (as indicated at the top, look at line number 448), and we can infer from the context in this thread that it's referring to t/026FileApp.t in the Log::Log4perl distro.

Not being able to install this module is stopping me from being

:) Use the force luke <hint> cpanm --notest Log::Log4perl </hint>

Update 2 Jan 20, footpad: Updated HTML tags to modern use, per Consideration.

Thank you, Obi-Wan!