Bug #6742 for ExtUtils-Install: ExtUtils::Install fails to install and still reports success

Wed Jun 23 18:28:31 2004 Guest - Ticket created

Subject:

ExtUtils::Install fails to install and still reports success

Hi, When using ExtUtils::Install as user without the necessary permissions to write to the target directory (eg: Using INSTALLDIRS=vendor when installing a perl module as normal user), it outputs one warning (only one, all further ones are suppressed) and then continues with the usual "Installing $FILE\n". In most environments at least one fatal error is generated when it tries to write the .packlist file, but on some systems the .packlist file is omitted (Debian Perl does that, for example) This little test script should demonstrate the problem: #!/bin/sh wget -N http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/A/AB/ABIGAIL/End-1.2.tgz && \ tar -xzf End-1.2.tgz && \ cd End/ && \ sudo mkdir -p $PWD/tmp/lib $PWD/tmp/arch $PWD/tmp/man1 $PWD/tmp/man3 && \ perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor INSTALLVENDORLIB=$PWD/tmp/lib INSTALLVENDORARCH=$PWD/tmp/arch INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR=$PWD/tmp/man1 INSTALLVENDORMAN3DIR=$PWD/tmp/man3 && \ make install I'm using perl 5.8.4 with ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.14.

Sat Dec 18 21:25:44 2004 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'stalled'

Sat Dec 18 21:25:44 2004 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

http://www.makemaker.org/wiki/index.cgi?ModulesForSale ExtUtils::Install is set to be split out of MakeMaker, so I'll leave this for the future maintainer.

Wed May 10 15:36:20 2006 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Queue changed from ExtUtils-MakeMaker to ExtUtils-Install

Sat Jul 07 11:31:19 2007 yves [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Wed Jun 23 18:28:31 2004, guest wrote: Show quoted text

> Hi, > > When using ExtUtils::Install as user without the necessary permissions > to write to the target directory (eg: Using INSTALLDIRS=vendor when > installing a perl module as normal user), it outputs one warning > (only one, all further ones are suppressed) and then continues with > the usual "Installing $FILE\n". > > In most environments at least one fatal error is generated when it > tries to write the .packlist file, but on some systems the > .packlist file is omitted (Debian Perl does that, for example) > > This little test script should demonstrate the problem: > > #!/bin/sh > wget -N http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/A/AB/ABIGAIL/End- > 1.2.tgz && \ > tar -xzf End-1.2.tgz && \ > cd End/ && \ > sudo mkdir -p $PWD/tmp/lib $PWD/tmp/arch $PWD/tmp/man1 $PWD/tmp/man3 > && \ > perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor INSTALLVENDORLIB=$PWD/tmp/lib > INSTALLVENDORARCH=$PWD/tmp/arch INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR=$PWD/tmp/man1 > INSTALLVENDORMAN3DIR=$PWD/tmp/man3 && \ > make install > > I'm using perl 5.8.4 with ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.14.

Hi, Could you try the latest development release of MakeMaker and see if this is still a problem? Sorry for the lag in responding. yves

Sat Jul 07 11:31:20 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'stalled' to 'open'

Sat Jul 07 11:31:22 2007 yves [...] cpan.org - Given to YVES

Fri Jul 13 12:23:06 2007 yves [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Im closing this ticket as resolved until i hear to the contrary.

Fri Jul 13 12:23:09 2007 yves [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'