"Resolve destination buffer too small" is unclear

Does torsocks support socks4?

I tried to torify cpan and ran into:

$ torsocks cpan instal ...
...
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/usr/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/01_load.t .......... 1/1 IO::Socket::IP v0.38 used as base class
t/01_load.t .......... ok   
t/02_new.t ........... ok   
t/03_connect.t ....... 1538348508 ERROR torsocks[8443]: [socks5] Resolve destination buffer too small (in socks5_recv_resolve_reply() at socks5.c:707)
t/03_connect.t ....... 1/? 
#   Failed test 'Socks 4 connect'
#   at t/03_connect.t line 22.
# Non-recoverable failure in name resolution
Can't call method "version" on an undefined value at t/03_connect.t line 23.
# Tests were run but no plan was declared and done_testing() was not seen.
# Looks like your test exited with 22 just after 1.

Related: #25599 (moved), #26339 (moved)