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Id: 56732
Status: rejected
Priority: 0/
Queue: DateTime
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: mkanat [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Important
Broken in: 0.55
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Mon Apr 19 18:51:25 2010 mkanat [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: DateTime is not properly installed by old versions of CPAN
Before 1.81, CPAN didn't have direct support for Module::Build. (perl 5.8.8 ships with CPAN 1.76_02, so there are many active Perl installs that do not have CPAN support for Module::Build.) This causes these old CPANs to attempt to create their own Makefile.PL for the package, which doesn't compile the XS properly, and I think doesn't even install prerequisites properly. The normal workaround for this is to add this to the Build.PL config: create_makefile_pl => 'passthrough'
  Mon Apr 19 18:54:23 2010 mkanat [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
More info here: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module- Build/lib/Module/Build/Cookbook.pm#Making_a_CPAN.pm- compatible_distribution
  Mon Apr 19 18:54:24 2010 mkanat [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Mon Apr 19 19:05:18 2010 mkanat [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
I just tested the "passthrough" option in DateTime, and it works, and the XS is properly built and installed.
  Tue Apr 20 11:28:57 2010 DROLSKY [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Mon Apr 19 19:05:18 2010, MKANAT wrote: Show quoted text
> I just tested the "passthrough" option in DateTime, and it works, and the > XS is properly built and installed.
Doh, wasn't paying enough attention in IRC. The passthrough option is deprecated. The small option works, but will only work if Module::Build is already installed, which means it will just give very confusing errors with a fresh Perl 5.8.8, since the CPAN shell will download the module and blow up when the Makefile.PL tries to load Module::Build::Compat. I'm not sure how much of an improvement that would be over the current state of things.
  Fri Oct 26 11:32:09 2012 DROLSKY [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'