Bug #103042 for ExtUtils-MakeMaker: Building distmeta target fails but make continues.

To reproduce the problem: 1. Download and unpack Foo-0.01.tar.gz 2. cd Foo-0.01 3. perl Makefile.PL 4. make dist You will get: $ make dist rm -rf Foo-0.01 "/usr/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Manifest=manicopy,maniread" \ -e "manicopy(maniread(),'Foo-0.01', 'best');" mkdir Foo-0.01 mkdir Foo-0.01/t mkdir Foo-0.01/lib Generating META.yml Generating META.json Could not add META.yml to MANIFEST: Could not add META.json to MANIFEST: tar cvf Foo-0.01.tar Foo-0.01 Foo-0.01/ Foo-0.01/t/ Foo-0.01/t/manifest.t Foo-0.01/t/pod.t Foo-0.01/t/pod-coverage.t Foo-0.01/t/00-load.t Foo-0.01/Changes Foo-0.01/README Foo-0.01/lib/ Foo-0.01/lib/Foo.pm Foo-0.01/META.yml Foo-0.01/META.json Foo-0.01/Makefile.PL Foo-0.01/MANIFEST rm -rf Foo-0.01 gzip -9f Foo-0.01.tar Created Foo-0.01.tar.gz You see that updating MANIFEST failed, but make continues. BTW, there is one more problem: lack of actual error message. Look at the generated Makefile: # --- MakeMaker distmeta section: distmeta : create_distdir metafile $(NOECHO) cd $(DISTVNAME) && $(ABSPERLRUN) -MExtUtils::Manifest=maniadd -e 'exit unless -e q{META.yml};' \ -e 'eval { maniadd({q{META.yml} => q{Module YAML meta-data (added by MakeMaker)}}) }' \ -e ' or print "Could not add META.yml to MANIFEST: $$$${'\''@'\''}\n"' -- It seems there are too many dollars here. I tracked it down to MM_Any.pm: sub distmeta_target { my $self = shift; my @add_meta = ( $self->oneliner(<<'CODE', ['-MExtUtils::Manifest=maniadd']), exit unless -e q{META.yml}; eval { maniadd({q{META.yml} => q{Module YAML meta-data (added by MakeMaker)}}) } or print "Could not add META.yml to MANIFEST: $${'@'}\n" CODE $self->oneliner(<<'CODE', ['-MExtUtils::Manifest=maniadd']) exit unless -f q{META.json}; eval { maniadd({q{META.json} => q{Module JSON meta-data (added by MakeMaker)}}) } or print "Could not add META.json to MANIFEST: $${'@'}\n" CODE ); oneliner (in MM_Unix.pm) calls quote_literal, which, in turn, calls escape_dollarsigns (or escape_all_dollarsigns). It seems the code above (a cite from MM_Any.pm) should use only one dollar, not two. At least such a fix works for me (e. g. for Linux).