Hi Roderich, thanks a lot for your analysis!
Roderich Schupp wrote:
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.
This sounds quite likely. I think adding PAR and friends to configure_requires would be an acceptable workaround.
Cheers, Steffen
