I also found that relying on the build dir for finding dependencies, rather than installing them, led to problems with various modules not finding their dependencies. I now have CPAN::Reporter::Smoker install everything, using a local::lib just for the smoker, so that it doesn't conflict with anything else.
source ~/setup-smoker-local-lib.sh; nice perl -MCPAN::Reporter::Smoker -e "start(install=>1)" This has been working well for me. It seems to address the build_dir problem as well as correctly finding dependencies. 2011/6/21 Serguei Trouchelle <s...@cpan.org>: > Hello Daniel and CPAN Testers, > > I've found this very strange test result: > http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/048e04de-9b35-11e0-96f4-fdd92c767501 > > And after quick investigation found that there are also similar reports, and > all of them have one similarity: an enormous PERL5LIB variable (more than > 64k), which contains modules that totally unrelated to currently smoking > package. > > So, if you use build_dir_reuse, PLEASE set clean_cache_after to some small > value, and don't use default 100, because it's very likely to fill PERL5LIB > to the point when unpredicted problems start to appear. Having something > like Dist::Zilla::Some::Plugin smoked will definitely add *kilobytes* to > PERL5LIB because of hundred of Moose dependencies (174 including core > modules to be precise). > > -- > Serguei Trouchelle >
