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Id: 16365
Status: rejected
Priority: 0/
Queue: XML-Writer
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: jonasbn [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Important
Broken in: 0.600
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Thu Dec 08 17:02:59 2005 jonasbn [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Missing prerequisite for ExtUtils::MakeMaker
Hello, I experience some problem installing your module XML::Writer (0.600) on an older Perl (5.6.1) on a Linux box. I found out that you are using a feature in ExtUtils::MakeMaker, which was not present in the version shippen with Perl 5.6.1 (5.4302, according to Module::Corelist). The feature NO_META was not introduced until version 6.10_03 of ExtUtils::MakeMaker according to the Changes file (see below): 6.10_03 Fri Apr 11 00:21:25 PDT 2003 * Added NO_META WriteMakefile() option to suppress generation of META.yml. (Spoon, rt.cpan.org 2359) I have attached a patch to your Makefile.PL, or you can just add the prerequisite by hand. jonasbn
Index: Makefile.PL =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/patches/XML-Writer-0.600/Makefile.PL,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -r1.1 Makefile.PL --- Makefile.PL 8 Dec 2005 21:51:30 -0000 1.1 +++ Makefile.PL 8 Dec 2005 22:02:08 -0000 @@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ WriteMakefile( 'NAME' => 'XML::Writer', 'VERSION' => '0.600', - + 'PREREQ_PM' => { + 'ExtUtils::MakeMaker' => '6.10_03', + }, # A manually-created META.yml has all the other metadata; # we don't want it overwritten NO_META => 1
  Sun Sep 17 09:24:33 2006 joe [...] kafsemo.org - Correspondence added
From: JOSEPHW [...] cpan.org
(Sorry for the delay - I'm going through some old bugs.) On Thu Dec 08 17:02:59 2005, JONASBN wrote: Show quoted text
> > I found out that you are using a feature in ExtUtils::MakeMaker, which > was not present in the version shippen with Perl 5.6.1 (5.4302, > according to Module::Corelist). > > The feature NO_META was not introduced until version 6.10_03 of > ExtUtils::MakeMaker according to the Changes file (see below):
I tested against a version without NO_META support and it produces the diagnostic: 'NO_META' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name. However, the Makefile is still generated and builds as expected. I'm going to close this as INVALID. (I found another bug during testing, an unskipped test that breaks older perls - that might have been the problem.)
  Sun Sep 17 09:24:34 2006 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sun Sep 17 09:25:59 2006 joe [...] kafsemo.org - Correspondence added
Just a diagnostic in earlier versions, doesn't break installation.
  Sun Sep 17 09:26:00 2006 joe [...] kafsemo.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'