Bug #17720 for File-HomeDir: Problem Installing on Darwin with 'sudo -i cpan'

In a recent discussion on Perlmonks, I reported problems using the 'cpan' shell once I had installed gpg (see: http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=526321). I was advised by Perlmonk Aristotle to invoke the shell with: sudo -i cpan (http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=526653) so that sudo will set up the environment just as it would be for a logged-in root user. This worked successfully until tonight when I went to upgrade File::HomeDir to the latest version. I got test failures in t/02_main.t (see attached: File.HomeDir.failure.txt). This was surprising, as I had just installed the latest version of File::HomeDir on a Win32 earlier in the day. When I downloaded the distro and installed it manually, all tests passed and the module installed. When I do that, however, I am logged in under my user name and switch to 'sudo' only at the 'make install' point. I am running Perl 5.8.7 on Darwin (Mac OS X 10.3); full version info in attached file perl.minus.v.txt. Note that when I am using 'sudo -i cpan' and hence running 'make test' as a privileged user, the permissions on the working directory are as listed in attached file root.permissions.txt. Jim Keenan

[jimk] 574 $ sudo ls -la /var/root/.cpan/build/File-HomeDir-0.52 total 136 drwxr-xr-x 14 1001 1001 476 17 Feb 22:57 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel 510 17 Feb 22:57 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 1001 1001 1766 4 Jan 07:35 Changes -rw-r--r-- 1 1001 1001 20217 4 Jan 07:35 LICENSE -rw-r--r-- 1 1001 1001 553 4 Jan 07:35 MANIFEST -rw-r--r-- 1 1001 1001 339 4 Jan 07:35 META.yml -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1001 22571 17 Feb 22:57 Makefile -rwxr-xr-x 1 1001 1001 634 4 Jan 07:35 Makefile.PL -rw-r--r-- 1 1001 1001 6330 4 Jan 07:35 README drwxr-xr-x 8 root 1001 272 17 Feb 22:57 blib drwxr-xr-x 3 1001 1001 102 4 Jan 07:35 inc drwxr-xr-x 3 1001 1001 102 4 Jan 07:35 lib -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1001 0 17 Feb 22:57 pm_to_blib drwxr-xr-x 5 1001 1001 170 4 Jan 07:35 t

CPAN.pm: Going to build A/AD/ADAMK/File-HomeDir-0.52.tar.gz *** Module::AutoInstall version 1.00 *** Checking for dependencies... [Core Features] - Test::More ...loaded. (0.62 >= 0.47) - File::Spec ...loaded. (3.15 >= 0.80) *** Module::AutoInstall configuration finished. Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for File::HomeDir CPAN: YAML loaded ok cp lib/File/HomeDir/Darwin.pm blib/lib/File/HomeDir/Darwin.pm cp lib/File/HomeDir.pm blib/lib/File/HomeDir.pm cp lib/File/HomeDir/Unix.pm blib/lib/File/HomeDir/Unix.pm cp lib/File/HomeDir/MacOS9.pm blib/lib/File/HomeDir/MacOS9.pm cp lib/File/HomeDir/Windows.pm blib/lib/File/HomeDir/Windows.pm Manifying blib/man3/File::HomeDir.3 /usr/bin/make -- OK Running make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'inc', 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/01_compile.t t/02_main.t t/99_pod.t t/01_compile....ok t/02_main.......NOK 8 # Failed test 'Our documents directory exists' # in t/02_main.t at line 38. t/02_main.......NOK 10 # Failed test 'Our documents directory exists' # in t/02_main.t at line 41. t/02_main.......NOK 12 # Failed test 'Our local data directory exists' # in t/02_main.t at line 46. t/02_main.......NOK 14 # Failed test 'Our local data directory exists' # in t/02_main.t at line 49. t/02_main.......NOK 16 # Failed test 'Our local data directory exists' # in t/02_main.t at line 60. t/02_main.......NOK 18 # Failed test 'Our local data directory exists' # in t/02_main.t at line 63. # Looks like you failed 6 tests of 23. t/02_main.......dubious Test returned status 6 (wstat 1536, 0x600) DIED. FAILED tests 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 Failed 6/23 tests, 73.91% okay t/99_pod........ok Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- t/02_main.t 6 1536 23 6 26.09% 8 10 12 14 16 18 Failed 1/3 test scripts, 66.67% okay. 6/35 subtests failed, 82.86% okay. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255 /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK Running make install make test had returned bad status, won't install without force cpan>

[File-HomeDir-0.52] 563 $ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 7) configuration: Platform: osname=darwin, osvers=7.9.0, archname=darwin-2level uname='darwin macintosh.local 7.9.0 darwin kernel version 7.9.0: wed mar 30 20:11:17 pst 2005; root:xnuxnu-517.12.7.obj~1release_ppc power macintosh powerpc ' config_args='-de' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include', optimize='-Os', cppflags='-no-cpp-precomp -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-ldbm -ldl -lm -lc perllibs=-ldl -lm -lc libc=/usr/lib/libc.dylib, so=dylib, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dyld.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under darwin Compiled at Oct 24 2005 21:19:21 %ENV: PERL5LIB="/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl" @INC: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/darwin-2level /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/darwin-2level /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/darwin-2level /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/darwin-2level /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/darwin-2level /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .