On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:59:38PM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > Both of those modules are special cases. Module::Build obviously bundles > itself > so Module::Build doesn't have to be _already_ installed.
Yes but PPM still has to know how to build it. That's the important part. It obviously can else MB couldn't build itself. Acme::Colour, Data::Page and Module::CPANTS are some other MB based modules which have PPMs. However, this does appear to be the problem in many cases. MB is not installed. But you will note CPANrun is trying to install it, thus MB support. http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.8-linux/linux-5.8/DateTime-Locale-0.09.txt For whatever reason MB isn't already installed. It may be a PPM policy that they start with a clean build, dunno. Given that its running 5.8.0 is possible that the machine they're using is out of date. It looks like a change/bug in the CPAN shell is the culprit. There is no longer a default for what continent you're on. CPANrun does not appear to know how to handle this. It probably should and also CPAN.pm should be fixed so it again has defaults for all configuration questions. There's the problem to be fixed. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ But let us not dwell on such unhappy things. Let us instead think of pancakes--moist, delicious pancakes, dripping with syrup and hot butter. -- http://www.angryflower.com/timelo.gif
