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Id: 35648
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: CAD-Calc

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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: tod222 [...] gmail.com
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 0.26
Fixed in: (no value)



Subject: Error checking version number of prerequisites
Refuses to install, claiming bad version of Math::Round::Var -- note that error message is printing a binary value for the installed version number: ------------------------- CPAN.pm: Going to build E/EW/EWILHELM/CAD-Calc-0.26.tar.gz # running Build.PL installdirs=site /usr/bin/perl Build.PL installdirs=site Checking whether your kit is complete... Looks good * ERROR: Version  of Math::Round::Var is installed, but we need version >= 0.02 ERRORS/WARNINGS FOUND IN PREREQUISITES. You may wish to install the versions of the modules indicated above before proceeding with this installation. Creating new 'Build' script for 'CAD-Calc' version '0.26' make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. /usr/bin/make -- NOT OK Running make test Can't test without successful make Running make install make had returned bad status, install seems impossible Show quoted text
cpan> i Math::Round::Var
Strange distribution name [Math::Round::Var] Module id = Math::Round::Var CPAN_USERID EWILHELM (Eric Wilhelm <ewilhelm at cpan dot org>) CPAN_VERSION 1.000000 CPAN_FILE E/EW/EWILHELM/Math-Round-Var-v1.0.0.tar.gz MANPAGE Math::Round::Var - Variations on rounding. INST_FILE /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Math/Round/Var.pm INST_VERSION v1.0.0
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #35648] Error checking version number of prerequisites
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 18:02:45 -0700
To: bug-CAD-Calc [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing [...] gmail.com>
# from Tod Hagan via RT # on Monday 05 May 2008: Show quoted text
>Refuses to install, claiming bad version of Math::Round::Var -- note >that error message is printing a binary value for the installed > version number:
Hi Tod, What versions of CPAN, perl, Module::Build, and version are you running? In any case, it appears to be tripping on an old silly Makefile.PL compatibility file. Please set "prefer_installer => 'MB'" in your ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm. Thanks, Eric
Subject: silly Makefile.PL in 0.26
0.27 published