I appreciate the response! I can try posting there too, but ultimately I think the same intelligent people are listening to the beginners list as well as the cpan-testers,etc. I haven't joined the perl-win32-users group yet; Thanks for the suggestion. But then again, you are suggesting for me to go to activestate for support when this is a cygwin build, I don't know if that is a concern on that list or not. I'm interested in talking about the basics; and I'd argue it is beginner stuff, build perl, report to cpan testers.
There are many ways to report the issue so that people might hear and respond. Maybe opening RT tickets would also help get some attention... http://perldoc.perl.org/Parse/CPAN/Meta.html I don't know that I can categorize this properly into a real ticket though, so I'm unsure what or where such an issue should reside. Thanks again for the response. --dave On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 12:54 PM, John SJ Anderson <geneh...@genehack.org> wrote: > Hi Dave - > > I really don't think Perl beginners is the best place to be asking > this question. Have you considered trying something like > http://code.activestate.com/lists/perl-win32-users/ ? That seems like > a more likely place to connect with somebody who can help you. > > chrs, > john. > > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Dave Horner <daveydave1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > continuing to play with the cygwin64 perl blead that I built on > Aug-12th. I > > mentioned the strange infinite loop in the questioning of gpg tool; > haven't > > had time to research why that happened, yet. I'm trying to get basic > > reporting facilities up, as I have yet to report a single cygwin report. > > All of my testing is failing within configure so force does not help and > of > > course they don't get reported. > > > > As I mentioned before I have to be cognizant of the environment variables > > shared with my windows strawberry perl. > > This means at first I was tried all these options with PERL_YAML_BACKEND > and > > PERL_JSON_BACKEND set...which didn't work. So I've also tried unsetting > > them, ensuring they were not in env/set output, and trying to install > again. > > > > It appears that PERL_YAML_BACKEND defaults to YAML when no value is set. > > > > the issue it seems resides within: > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.21.3/CPAN/Meta.pm > > $backend = Parse::CPAN::Meta->yaml_backend(); > > $data = eval { no strict 'refs'; &{"$backend\::Dump"}($struct) }; > > if ( $@ ) { > > croak $backend->can('errstr') ? $backend->errstr : $@ > > } > > > > # running Build.PL > > Could not load PERL_YAML_BACKEND 'YAML' > > at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.21.3/CPAN/Meta.pm line 613. > > > > I've tried forcing installing YAML::XS, YAML, YAML::Tiny, YAML::Old, > > JSON::XS, JSON > > > > They all give me a similar error about the backend not being there; > what am > > I missing? Do I need to be bootstrapping these files manually? > Shouldn't a > > basic backend support for YAML/JSON come out of the box with perl blead? > > > > I appreciate any help/guidance. > > > > Thanks, > > --dave > > https://questhub.io/realm/perl/quest/53d39f40b587a43011000143 > > http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/YACSmokePOE - built perl using > instructions > > found here. >
