INSTALL.pl from cloned repository failing on Ubuntu/perl5.22.1

Created by: pmcarlton

I'm trying to install Bio-DB-HTS as a prerequisite of BRASS. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04, perl 5.22.1 (details in Gist at https://gist.github.com/pmcarlton/19dd97bf075160e672938625b700b77d)

I've cloned the git repo and tried to install from within the cloned directory. perl INSTALL.pl is failing with: (see gist for complete log)

...
[fai_load] build FASTA index.
panic: sv_setpvn called with negative strlen -1 at t/07cramwrite.t line 117.
panic: sv_setpvn called with negative strlen -1 at t/08bamwrite.t line 117.
Failed 4/11 test programs. 0/397 subtests failed.
Build test failed. Not continuing at INSTALL.pl line 198.
cannot remove path when cwd is /tmp/DaEfuzO1DW/Bio-DB-HTS for /tmp/DaEfuzO1DW:  at /usr/share/perl/5.22/File/Temp.pm line 778.

I'm not sure how to go about fixing it, so any advice would be appreciated. Thanks