David Golden via RT wrote:
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http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47952 >
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> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Michael G Schwern via
> RT<bug-CPAN@rt.cpan.org> wrote:
>
> What version/edition/etc of CentOS? Maybe I can find a VM appliance
> and check it out.
CentOS 5 is the best I got out of the guy. I sort of replicated the problem
on Ubuntu Hardy by installing Padre from scratch, but oddly enough it gave the
warning *after* Padre and all dependencies had been installed.
The oddity was that Wx failed to install which should have stopped Padre dead
in its tracks but it was running without an X server so most of the tests
skipped which allowed Padre to install. CPAN was then left in the odd
position of having Padre seemingly failing to install because Wx failed to
install... but Padre and everything else installed.
Recursive dependency detected:
Padre
=> S/SZ/SZABGAB/Padre-0.39.tar.gz
=> Wx
=> M/MB/MBARBON/Wx-0.91.tar.gz
=> Alien::wxWidgets
=> M/MB/MBARBON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.43.tar.gz
=> Module::Pluggable
=> S/SI/SIMONW/Module-Pluggable-3.9.tar.gz
=> Test::More
=> M/MS/MSCHWERN/Test-Simple-0.92.tar.gz
=> Test::Harness
=> A/AN/ANDYA/Test-Harness-3.17.tar.gz
=> File::Spec
=> S/SM/SMUELLER/PathTools-3.30.tar.gz
=> Scalar::Util
=> G/GB/GBARR/Scalar-List-Utils-1.21.tar.gz
=> Test::More.
I didn't dig further since it was a pretty transient problem.
Anyhow, rather than dig out the problem and then discover its long since been
fixed what I suggest is to contact Perl vendors and suggest they upgrade their
copies of the CPAN shell in 5.8.8 to something which A) doesn't have this bug
(and others) and B) understands Module::Build because there's not much use
shipping a "pure" copy of Perl which can't install modules. Give them a
definitive version to use even if its just whatever the latest stable is.
And suggest they upgrade to 5.8.9.
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