On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 04:38:20PM -0500, Graham Barr wrote: > On Sep 2, 2008, at 4:10 PM, David Cantrell wrote: > >>I already know that my distributions don't work if you don't > >>install the > >>dependencies > >I'm pretty damned sure that this a straw man. Can you point at any > >regular tester who *right now* is regularly failing to follow the > >dependency chain? > Well I got two reports from you today which reported a FAIL because a > listed dependency was not installed > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/09/msg2126464.html > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/09/msg2125771.html
$ tar tzvf perl-ldap-0.37.tar.gz ?rw-rw-rw- root/root 52 2008-08-28 12:52:15 pax_global_header unknown fil e type `g' drwxrwxr-x root/root 0 2008-08-28 12:52:15 perl-ldap-0.37/ -rw-rw-r-- root/root 32 2008-08-28 12:52:15 perl-ldap-0.37/.gitignore -rw-rw-r-- root/root 1349 2008-08-28 12:52:15 perl-ldap-0.37/CREDITS ... (exactly what it says for the first file varies from one version of tar to another, and even from one version of GNU tar to another) That first file is the problem. Because the distribution doesn't untar cleanly into a subdirectory, CPAN.pm creates a subdir for you and untars into that. It then goes into that subdir and tries to do the usual Makefile.PL/make/make test/make install dance. Seeing that there's no Makefile.PL in that directory, it creates one for you, and then everything goes pear-shaped because that Makefile.PL doesn't list any dependencies. This might also explain why the distribution doesn't appear on search.cpan.org. Hope that helps! -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive Computer Science is about lofty design goals and careful algorithmic optimisation. Sysadminning is about cleaning up the resulting mess.
