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Id: 17313
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: CPAN
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Owner: ANDK [...] cpan.org
Requestors: carl [...] fireartist.com
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Severity: Critical
Broken in: 1.83
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Fri Jan 27 11:09:43 2006 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: MB fails with cpan.pm's defaults on windows
perl 5.8.8-RC1 built from source: mingw (gcc 3.4.5) winXP pro sp2 The default option for "mbuild_install_build_command" is "./Build" which fails on windows because the file is not executable. The command should be "perl Build". Attached is a patch for FirstTime.pm which changes the default for "mbuild_install_build_command". It uses the value from CPAN::Distribution::perl() to ensure the correct perl binary is called.
Subject: FirstTime.pm.diff
480c480,481 < $default = $CPAN::Config->{mbuild_install_build_command} || "./Build"; --- > my($perl) = CPAN::Distribution::perl() or die "Couldn\'t find executable perl\n"; > $default = $CPAN::Config->{mbuild_install_build_command} || "$perl Build"; 482c483 < prompt("Do you want to use a different command for './Build install'? --- > prompt("Do you want to use a different command for './Build'?
  Sat Jan 28 23:47:43 2006 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Taken
  Sat Jan 28 23:50:42 2006 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
If it is as you describe, I have completely misunderstood the inner workings of Module::Build. I'll go to the module-build mailing list and discuss the issue there. You're welcome to chime in there. In any case I'll summarize here later
  Sat Jan 28 23:50:42 2006 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Mon Jan 30 05:42:22 2006 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
As promised, first a summary about the discussion on the Module::Build mailinglist: a majority is willing to see the bug in Module::Build and it will eventually be fixed in the next release. As we cannot depend on future releases, CPAN.pm has now workarounds in several places: (1) support for the keys make_install_make_command and mbuild_install_build_command on Windows is completely dropped. (2) new method CPAN::Distribution::_build_command deals with the construction of the command string Released as 1.83_60, this should now work on Windows (only tested by setting $^O to "MSWin32" on a linux box -- not a very realistic test) Thanks for the report, I'll close this ticket now. Please reopen if you encounter problems.
  Mon Jan 30 05:42:24 2006 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'