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Id: 11612
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: ExtUtils-MakeMaker
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Requestors: dstahlke [...] gi.alaska.edu
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Severity: Important
Broken in: 6.25
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  Mon Feb 21 19:21:58 2005 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: ExtUtils::MakeMaker fails 'make test'
Running 'perl Makefile.PL' on Digest::MD5 creats a Makefile that is badly mangled starting at line 66. The problem might be because this is a 64-bit system with 64-bit perl. That was with ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.03. I can't install the newest version (6.25) because it fails 'make test'. -------------------------------- ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.25 ------------------------------------- This is perl, v5.8.0 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) Locally applied patches: MAINT18379 ------------------------------------- Linux misery 2.4.28 #11 SMP Sun Dec 12 14:31:12 AKST 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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  Mon Feb 21 23:57:06 2005 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
[guest - Mon Feb 21 19:21:58 2005]: Show quoted text
> Running 'perl Makefile.PL' on Digest::MD5 creats a Makefile that is > badly mangled starting at line 66. > The problem might be because this is a 64-bit system with 64-bit perl. > > That was with ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.03. I can't install the > newest version (6.25) because it fails 'make test'.
Without seeing how it failed I can't really diagnose the problem, however... Show quoted text
> This is perl, v5.8.0 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi > (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) > Locally applied patches: > MAINT18379
This looks suspiciously like Redhat's Perl which is known to be god awful, to use the technical term, and rife with Unicode bugs one of which causes it to create mangled Makefiles. I would suggest either changing your locale to a non-Unicode one or installing a working Perl. I suspect that problem, and many others, will go away. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87682
  Mon Feb 21 23:57:07 2005 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'stalled'
  Tue Feb 22 17:28:37 2005 Guest - Correspondence added
[MSCHWERN - Mon Feb 21 23:57:06 2005]: Show quoted text
> [guest - Mon Feb 21 19:21:58 2005]:
> > Running 'perl Makefile.PL' on Digest::MD5 creats a Makefile that is > > badly mangled starting at line 66. > > The problem might be because this is a 64-bit system with 64-bit perl. > > > > That was with ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.03. I can't install the > > newest version (6.25) because it fails 'make test'.
> > Without seeing how it failed I can't really diagnose the problem,
however... Show quoted text
> >
> > This is perl, v5.8.0 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi > > (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) > > Locally applied patches: > > MAINT18379
> > This looks suspiciously like Redhat's Perl which is known to be god > awful, to use the technical term, and rife with Unicode bugs one of > which causes it to create mangled Makefiles. I would suggest either > changing your locale to a non-Unicode one or installing a working Perl. > I suspect that problem, and many others, will go away. > > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87682
Yup, 'export LANG=C' fixed it.
  Tue Feb 22 17:28:38 2005 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'stalled' to 'open'
  Tue Feb 22 22:30:10 2005 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'