Bug #19406 for Module-Build: argument list too long (Red Hat and derivatives)

On Sun May 28 16:07:01 2006, guest wrote: Show quoted text
Yeah, it does look like a different issue. I've never seen that one before, I'm not sure what's going on there. One thing you *might* want to try is setting the LANG environment variable to "C" or just the empty string and trying again. I've seen some problems with the default locale on RH that that usually fixes. -Ken

On Mo. 29. Mai 2006, 05:15:44, guest wrote: Show quoted text
I am experiencing the same exact behaviour. On attempting to install Module-Build-0.2801 on RHEL4 on a SunFire X4100 System (SUN Dual Opteron) the test returns the following output: Manifying blib/lib/Module/Build/Authoring.pod -> blib/libdoc/Module::Build::Authoring.3pm Manifying blib/lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm -> blib/libdoc/Module::Build::Compat.3pm [root@TDN1M27MGS0L Module-Build-0.2801]# LANG="C" ./Build test t/basic...........Warning: Removing existing directory '/tmp/test/Module-Build-0.2801/t/_tmp/Simple' t/basic...........ok t/compat..........ok 2/60Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too long at /tmp/test/Module-Build-0.2801/blib/lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm line 200. # Failed test in t/compat.t at line 180. t/compat..........NOK 3 # Failed test 'Makefile should exist' # in t/compat.t at line 181. t/compat..........NOK 4make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. t/compat..........NOK 5 # Failed test in t/compat.t at line 56. make: *** No rule to make target `test'. Stop. t/compat..........NOK 6# Failed test in t/compat.t at line 63. # Failed test in t/compat.t at line 64. t/compat..........NOK 7# 'MAKE TEST # ' # doesn't match '(?-xism:DONE\.|SUCCESS)' make: *** No rule to make target `realclean'. Stop. # Failed test in t/compat.t at line 66. t/compat..........NOK 8Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too long at /tmp/test/Module-Build-0.2801/blib/lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm line 200. # Failed test in t/compat.t at line 180. # Failed test 'Makefile should exist' # in t/compat.t at line 181. t/compat..........NOK 10make: *** No rule to make target `realclean'. Stop. t/compat..........ok 12/60Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too long at /tmp/test/Module-Build-0.2801/blib/lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm line 200. # Failed test in t/compat.t at line 180. t/compat..........NOK 13 # Failed test 'Makefile should exist' t/compat..........NOK 14# in t/compat.t at line 181. make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. t/compat..........NOK 15 # Failed test in t/compat.t at line 56. make: *** No rule to make target `test'. Stop. # Failed test in t/compat.t at line 63. # Failed test in t/compat.t at line 64. # 'MAKE TEST # ' # doesn't match '(?-xism:DONE\.|SUCCESS)' t/compat..........NOK 17make: *** No rule to make target `realclean'. Stop. t/compat..........NOK 18 # Failed test in t/compat.t at line 66. Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too long at /tmp/test/Module-Build-0.2801/blib/lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm line 200. # Failed test in t/compat.t at line 180. t/compat..........NOK 19 # Failed test 'Makefile should exist' t/compat..........NOK 20# in t/compat.t at line 181. make: *** No rule to make target `realclean'. Stop. t/compat..........ok 36/60 # Failed test in t/compat.t at line 101. # 'Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too long at /tmp/test/Module-Build-0.2801/blib/lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm line 200. # ' # doesn't match '(?-xism:Foo/Builder.pm)' t/compat..........ok 39/60 # Failed test in t/compat.t at line 101. # 'Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too long at /tmp/test/Module-Build-0.2801/blib/lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm line 200. # ' # doesn't match '(?-xism:Foo/Builder.pm)' t/compat..........ok 42/60Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too long at /tmp/test/Module-Build-0.2801/blib/lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm line 200. t/compat..........NOK 43 # Failed test in t/compat.t at line 109. t/compat..........ok 44/60Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too long at /tmp/test/Module-Build-0.2801/blib/lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm line 200. # Failed test in t/compat.t at line 109. t/compat..........NOK 45Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too long at /tmp/test/Module-Build-0.2801/blib/lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm line 200. # Failed test in t/compat.t at line 126. t/compat..........ok 47/60 t/compat..........NOK 48# Failed test in t/compat.t at line 130. # got: 'site' # expected: 'core' t/compat..........NOK 49# Failed test in t/compat.t at line 131. # got: undef # expected: '1' t/compat..........NOK 50# Failed test in t/compat.t at line 132. # got: '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5' # expected: '/tmp/test/Module-Build-0.2801/t/libdir' t/compat..........NOK 51# Failed test in t/compat.t at line 133. # got: undef # expected: '-DPERL_POLLUTE' make: *** No rule to make target `test'. Stop. t/compat..........NOK 52 # Failed test in t/compat.t at line 138. t/compat..........NOK 53 # Failed test 'Should be verbose' # in t/compat.t at line 140. # '# make test # ' # doesn't match '(?-xism:(?:# ok \d+\s+)+)' make: *** No rule to make target `test'. Stop. t/compat..........NOK 54# Failed test in t/compat.t at line 144. t/compat..........NOK 55# Failed test 'Should be non-verbose' # in t/compat.t at line 146. # '# make test TEST_VERBOSE=0 # ' # doesn't match '(?-xism:(?:# .+basic\.+ok\s+(?:[\d.]+\s*m?s\s*)?)# All tests)' t/compat..........ok 56/60make: *** No rule to make target `realclean'. Stop. t/compat..........ok 58/60Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too long at /tmp/test/Module-Build-0.2801/blib/lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm line 200. t/compat..........NOK 59# Failed test in t/compat.t at line 168. Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at t/compat.t line 169. at t/compat.t line 169 eval ' #line 169 t/compat.t $test = $this =~ /$usable_regex/ ? 1 : 0 ;' called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/Test/Builder.pm line 751 Test::Builder::_regex_ok('Test::Builder=HASH(0x6710c0)', 'undef', 'Regexp=SCALAR(0xd297f0)', '!~', 'Tildes should be expanded') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/Test/Builder.pm line 678 Test::Builder::unlike('Test::Builder=HASH(0x6710c0)', 'undef', 'Regexp=SCALAR(0xd297f0)', 'Tildes should be expanded') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/Test/More.pm line 390 Test::More::unlike('undef', 'Regexp=SCALAR(0xd297f0)', 'Tildes should be expanded') called at t/compat.t line 169 t/compat..........ok 60/60make: *** No rule to make target `realclean'. Stop. # Looks like you failed 30 tests of 60. t/compat..........dubious Test returned status 30 (wstat 7680, 0x1e00) DIED. FAILED tests 3-10, 13-20, 38, 41, 43, 45-46, 48-55, 59 Failed 30/60 tests, 50.00% okay t/destinations....ok 8/113 skipped: various reasons t/ext.............ok t/extend..........ok t/files...........ok t/install.........ok t/manifypods......ok t/mbyaml..........ok t/metadata........ok t/metadata2.......ok t/moduleinfo......ok t/notes...........ok t/parents.........ok t/pod_parser......ok t/ppm.............ok t/runthrough......ok 13/32Can't exec "/usr/bin/perl": Argument list too long at /tmp/test/Module-Build-0.2801/blib/lib/Module/Build/Base.pm line 3927. Can't exec "/usr/bin/perl": Argument list too long at /tmp/test/Module-Build-0.2801/blib/lib/Module/Build/Base.pm line 3927. t/runthrough......ok 4/32 skipped: Windows only test t/signature.......skipped all skipped: $ENV{TEST_SIGNATURE} is not set t/tilde...........ok t/versions........ok t/xs..............ok Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- t/compat.t 30 7680 60 30 50.00% 3-10 13-20 38 41 43 45-46 48-55 59 1 test and 12 subtests skipped. Failed 1/21 test scripts, 95.24% okay. 30/704 subtests failed, 95.74% okay. This output is returned, regardless of whether the LANG environment variable is set to "C" or the empty string. Is there a workaround? Best Regards Steven

On Tue Jun 06 08:08:43 2006, guest wrote: Show quoted text
Unfortunately this isn't a viable option for many RHEL users because there isn't a clean, rpm-based way of doing this update - the Test::Harness module is bundled in the Red Hat/Fedora perl rpm and so a full update of that package would be needed. Whilst the module could be done manually from source, it would lose the benefits of the rpm package management database, dependency tracking etc.

On Sun May 28 15:26:13 2006, KWILLIAMS wrote: Show quoted text
I've notice it (or something) seems to be taking each element of @INC, and adding several variations of it - almost like something does: @INC = map { $_, "$_/5.8.1", "$_/5.8.2", "$_/5.8.3" etc }( @INC ); I'm not sure what's doing this but it means @INC grows exponentially. I noticed this because I have a module called Foo which overrode the M::B test 'Foo' package, but failed on a 'use', and so listed @INC.

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I have exactly the same problem here, under Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 4. I tried the different tricks that have apparently worked for others, like setting the environment variables LC_ALL or LANG to C, but it did not help at all. Is there a patch we can apply? This problem is specific to Redhat. I did the same job under FreeBSD 6.1 just before, without any problem.

I've been able to work on this a bit between other tasks, and have a crude hack that goes some way to fixing the problem - although not completely. I'll add another comment with a patch later today or tomorrow.

On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 11:56 -0500, via RT wrote: Show quoted text
Strangely enough M::B 0.2806 is running just fine on all the distributions I've tried as long as the test suite is run using the "C" locale; is the patch a fix for other locales? Paul.

here's the patch I attached to the last reply - for some reason it was uploaded as "application/octet-stream" instead of text/plain The idea here is to remove paths from @INC that point to non-existent directories. This isn't a good fix because some directories such as lib/blib should be in @INC but will not exist until later in the build process. diff -ruw Module-Build-0.2805/lib/Module/Build/Base.pm Module-Build-0.2805.testing/lib/Module/Build/Base.pm --- Module-Build-0.2805/lib/Module/Build/Base.pm 2006-07-29 20:07:23.000000000 -0700 +++ Module-Build-0.2805.testing/lib/Module/Build/Base.pm 2006-12-18 16:43:19.000000000 -0800 @@ -1288,8 +1288,21 @@ my $self = shift; my %seen; - $seen{$_}++ foreach $self->_default_INC; - return grep !$seen{$_}++, @INC; + foreach my $path ( $self->_default_INC ) { + $seen{$path}++; + } + my @added_to_inc; + foreach my $path ( @INC ) { + if ( ! exists $seen{$path} ) { + if ( -d $path ) { + push @added_to_inc, $path; + } + $seen{$path} = 1; + } + } + unshift @added_to_inc, 'lib', 't/lib'; + + return @added_to_inc; }

Seems fixed in 0.2806 I tested Module-Build-0.2806 with Perl 5.8.5 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux rdclxsrv184 2.6.9-34.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Feb 24 16:56:28 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I think this bug can be marked closed, fixed in 0.2806

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Thank you for reporting back. This ticket also consolidates the following two tickets: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23834 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21870 Also see: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module.build/2006/07/msg201.html http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module.build/2006/12/msg461.html