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Id: 32098
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: CPAN-Reporter
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Requestors: SREZIC [...] cpan.org
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Broken in: 1.0601
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  Sat Jan 05 11:59:18 2008 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Autoflush needed?
When running the Makefile.PL for Audio-Ecasound-0.92 under CPAN::Reporter, it seems that the script hangs. In fact, the Makefile.PL is waiting for user's input, but the question is not yet flushed. According to http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Buffering.html output to STDOUT is automatically flushed if the script when reading from STDIN. But here it's not STDOUT involved, but some other filehandle, as it seems, so this flushing rule does not apply. The module author can fix the problem by adding $|=1 or printing the questions to STDERR, but maybe it's possible to add some kind of autoflushing to CPAN::Reporter? I think this is not the only distribution with this problem, I encountered similar things many times before, but did never an investigation. Regards, Slaven
  Sat Jan 05 17:48:47 2008 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Sat Jan 05 11:59:18 2008, SREZIC wrote: Show quoted text
> When running the Makefile.PL for Audio-Ecasound-0.92 under > CPAN::Reporter, it seems that the script hangs. In fact, the Makefile.PL > is waiting for user's input, but the question is not yet flushed. > According to http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Buffering.html output to STDOUT > is automatically flushed if the script when reading from STDIN. But here > it's not STDOUT involved, but some other filehandle, as it seems, so > this flushing rule does not apply. The module author can fix the problem > by adding $|=1 or printing the questions to STDERR, but maybe it's > possible to add some kind of autoflushing to CPAN::Reporter? > > I think this is not the only distribution with this problem, I > encountered similar things many times before, but did never an > investigation. >
It seems Andreas had the same problem and put a ticket in the Audio-Ecasound queue: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32101 Regards, Slaven
  Sat Jan 05 17:48:53 2008 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sun Jun 22 11:44:05 2008 dagolden [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Latest CPAN::Reporter dev releases add Devel::Autoflush to PERL5OPT to address this issue.
  Sun Jun 22 11:44:07 2008 dagolden [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'