On 10/25/14, 1:03 PM, Nick Wellnhofer wrote:
> Lucifers,
> 
> I'm pretty sure that the CPAN installation issue that Peter and others
> reported and that many CPAN testers are suffering from is fixed with
> this commit:
> 
> 
> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=lucy-clownfish.git;a=commitdiff;h=cbbee7aa5f2be6f8339119de3bb4d3f0d8757141
> 
> 
> What went wrong is that CPAN installers were configuring the Lucy build
> by running 'Build.PL' first, then figuring out the prerequisites and
> installing Clownfish. The Clownfish include dirs were determined at
> configure time during the construction of our subclassed Module::Build
> object, then serialized and used for the rest of the build process. So
> if Clownfish wasn't installed when running Build.PL, the include dir was
> not yet created resulting in the "Parcel 'Clownfish' required by 'Lucy'
> not found" error later on. This also explains why running the
> installation again fixed things.
> 


That explanation sounds consistent with what I experienced, definitely.
I look forward to a pair of release candidates where I can test on a
fresh Perl install.


-- 
Peter Karman  .  http://peknet.com/  .  [email protected]

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