Greetings,
There appears to be a problem that ExtUtils::Install.pm is having
finding .packlist files on VMS as can be seen by this sequence
using VMS 7.3-1, perl 5.8.1,
$ perl "-MExtUtils::MakeMaker" -e "print $ExtUtils::MakeMaker::VERSION"
6.17
$ perl "-MExtUtils::Install" -e "print $ExtUtils::Install::VERSION"
1.32
along with the module WWW::Mechanize 0.70 from CPAN (though the
following problem is not unique to just that module as I have seen it with
several others):
$ mmk install
Installing perl_root:[lib.site_perl.www]mechanize.pm
Writing perl_root:[lib.site_perl.VMS_AXP.auto.WWW.Mechanize].packlist
Appending installation info to perl_root:[lib.VMS_AXP.5_8_1]perllocal.pod
$ mmk uninstall
Uninstall is unsafe and deprecated, the uninstallation was not performed.
We will show what would have been done.
no packlist file found: at /perl_root/lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 318.
%RMS-E-FNF, file not found
%MMK-F-ERRUPD, error status %X00018292 occurred when updating target
UNINSTALL_FROM_SITEDIRS
So the install target in the Makefile (the descrip.mms file) is
capable of writing the file to
perl_root:[lib.site_perl.VMS_AXP.auto.WWW.Mechanize].packlist
but Install.pm cannot then find it later.
Don't worry though I do know the drill: upgrade everything and pull the
latest makemaker from some obscure URL.
Peter Prymmer
