(a) What was the situation before things broke
Generally all OK - I was able to send and submit CPAN2.0 reports.
(b) What did you do that caused the break
Sometimes I would install an updated version of a module, sometimes I would
run a Smoker, sometimes I would sleep (i.e. it worked fine one day, but not
when I came back to it the next time).
(c) What kind of fixes did you try
Reinstall Metabase::Fact, Test::Reporter, CPAN::Reporter,
Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase, Metabase::Client::Simple
(d) All the usual perl -V details
My Cygwin installation has just suffered the same problem. Here is the
perl -V from that build:
$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 1) configuration:
Platform:
osname=cygwin, osvers=1.7.0(0.21853),
archname=i686-cygwin-thread-multi-64in
t
uname='cygwin_nt-5.1 reini 1.7.0(0.21853) 2009-12-04 17:08 i686 cygwin '
config_args='-de -Dlibperl=cygperl5_10.dll -Dmksymlinks -Dusethreads -Doptim
ize=-O3'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
use64bitint=define, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=y, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='gcc', ccflags
='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -fno-strict-ali
asing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include',
optimize='-O3',
cppflags='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -fno-strict-aliasing
-pip
e -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include'
ccversion='', gccversion='4.3.4 20090804 (release) 1', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lsee
ksize=8
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='g++', ldflags
=' -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,-
-stack,8388608 -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /lib
libs=-lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lcrypt -lgdbm_compat
perllibs=-ldl -lcrypt
libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=cygperl5_10.dll
gnulibc_version=''
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags=' ',
lddlflags=' --shared -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--export-
all-symbols -Wl,--stack,8388608 -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -L/usr/local/lib
-f
stack-protector'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY MYMALLOC PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV
USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API
Locally applied patches:
CYG11 no-bs
CYG12 no archlib in otherlibdirs
CYG14 Dynaloader
CYG15 static-Win32CORE
CYG17 utf8-paths
CYG21 LibList-Kid.patch
CYG22 cygwin-1.7 hints
CYG23 544-stat
CYG24 build man pages
CYG26 Cwd for svk
Bug#55162 File::Spec::case_tolerant performance
disable ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Coverage in Sys-Syslog
Built under cygwin
Compiled at Dec 18 2009 14:54:24
%ENV:
CYGWIN=""
@INC:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8
.
In particular, I'm not clear in your email below if "I ran install"
was (b) or (c) above.
c
But quite often quitting and reloading the CPAN shell fixes it.
More generally, the kinds of problems you're reporting make me very
suspicious that you've got @INC problems or that things are not
getting installed where you think they are getting installed.
Agreed - but I promise I'm not changing anything from the standard (except
on Hurd when one
must do "export PERL5LIB=/etc" for CPAN to work - this is a known bug with
Perl on that operating system).
There was a point in perl history where CPAN+ExtUtils::MakeMaker will
install into the wrong version of perl if you have multiple perls on
your system. (IIRC, it installs into the first Perl in $PATH instead
of the perl that is running CPAN.pm)
I only have one Perl on most systems. I only have two on my Solaris
machines (one configured to use GCC etc. and one configured to use Sun
Studio).
Could you please manually verify the versions that are installed in
your library paths?
I tried to download pmtools as documented at
http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#Where_find_Perl_modules
by doing "wget http://language.perl.com/misc/pmtools-1.00.tar.gz";, but it
created a file called download.csp. I've not yet had the time to
investigate why.
So I've had to do it the slow way with lots of perldocs and copying the
versions over. This is the list from my
Cygwin installation:
Test::Reporter: 1.57
CPAN::Reporter 1.711
Metabase::Fact 0.016
Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase 1.999005
Metabase::Client::Simple 0.006
-Nigel
