On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:01:34PM -0400, David Golden wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Lars D????????????????? ????????? <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > My smoker ballooned the -I includes to enormous sizes of up to 1500
> > additional directories and during testing programs could not be
> > executed anymore. I pasted an excerpt at <http://sial.org/pbot/30510>
> > and truncated the long lines from 569250 characters to 300.
Command-line length limit.
> I've left my smoker to run while I'm on a business trip -- I'm curious
> if I'll have the same problem on my return.
Let me guess, C::R::Smoker uses CPAN.pm's test() function and doesn't do
an actual install? Those horribly long -I lines are one of the reasons
I switched from using test() to install() myself, installing into a perl
build that I wipe every fifty or so modules.
> It's hard to believe that some distro had that many dependencies -- it
> sounds like there might be some sort of loop.
Do you restart after feeding each module to the smoker? If not, then I
can easily imagine it happening. Just throw the RECENT file at it,
which (as of dark o'clock this morning) has 379 distributions in it.
Add one dependency for each of them, multiply by two to get both
blib/arch and blib/lib, and there's 1500-ish includes.
> There was some discussion a while back what to do aside from using
> PERL5LIB. I came up with another awful hack -- write all the libs to
> be included into a temp file and just include that with -M in
> PERL5OPT. I never got around to implementing it, but maybe I should.
Or install() into a perl build that you wipe and restore periodically.
> I've copied Ask and Robert at the Perl NOC. Even if outbound mail is
> off, the list needs to let people subscribe so that inbound mails are
> approved without delay.
cpan-testers's dirty little secret is that it accepts mail from anyone,
no susbcription necessary any more - unless that changed when sending
was disabled.
> > PS: Next time I will think harder about a good mail subject.
> It got my attention, anyway. ;-)
It was all the question marks in his name that got mine :-)
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I don't configure peripherals or networks before using them. I have
a computer to do all that. I have a Macintosh, not a hobby.
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