On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Steffen Mueller > However, looking at the CPAN Testers Matrix for the last two dev releases, I > see a lot of FAIL and UNKNOWN in the test reports. See for yourself: > > http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=PAR-Packer 0.992_05 > http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=PAR-Packer 0.992_04 > > It's still fine in 0.992_03 and earlier: > http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=PAR-Packer 0.992_03 > > Now, I'm starved for time as usual. Are there any volunteers willing to > check the FAIL and UNKOWN test reports against the changes between 0.992_03 > and 0.992_04 to see what made PAR::Packer so fragile?
Hi Steffen, I had a brief look at the linux column., esp. the UNKNOWN: make failed with "Can't locate PAR/Heavy.pm in @INC" entries. Is it possible that the latest CPAN.pm has changed the way the configure_requires parameter works, i.e. when are missing requires/config_requires are resolved? It looks as if CPAN 1.9402 works this way: (1) satisfy all config_requires (2) perl Makefile.PL (3) satisfy requires (4) make ... Now "perl Makefile.PL" builds (from @INC) a list of -Idir options that are burned into Makefile. Later, these are passed to myldr/static which uses these directories to find modules like PAR::Heavy. Now PAR is _not_ listed in"configure_requires", hence its temporay build directory is not in @INC at (2). PAR _is_ listed in "requires", hence it is downloaded and built during (3) and its temporay build directory is in @INC at (4). But that's too late. To fix: either add PAR (and possibly others) to "config_requires" or generate the parameters for myldr/static dynamically at make time. Cheers, Roderich
