Bug #69900 for ExtUtils-MakeMaker: EUMM breaks the ability to build makefiles (perl Makefile.PL)

Fri Jul 29 22:10:06 2011 COSMICNET [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

EUMM breaks the ability to build makefiles (perl Makefile.PL)

Hi, I've come across this bug, seems like it's been around since the last release: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6074655/cant-install-new-perl-modules-using-makemaker/6880163#6880163 I've tested on several machines and narrowed down to this module. Basically you aren't declaring dependency for Parse::CPAN::Meta version 1.44, when distros like CentOS only come with 1.4. EUMM build is going through fine because it uses the bundled/Parse-CPAN-Meta/Parse/CPAN/Meta.pm version 1.44 it comes with. But of course as the system doesn't have this, everything else breaks. I posted a quick workaround on stackoverflow for people googling this issue, but it's far from ideal. Lyle

Wed Aug 03 16:28:58 2011 rt-cpan [...] trout.me.uk - Correspondence added

What's happened here is that because CPAN::Meta set $VERSION in a BEGIN block, the ->VERSION check returned true even though CPAN::Meta hadn't successfully loaded and as such ExtUtils::MakeMaker carried on believing that it had. I've now updated EUMM master to a new version of CPAN::Meta that does do this and tweaked the test for CPAN::Meta being available to be slightly more defensive, which I believe resolves the problem. To double check I'm right, please could you try installing ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.58_01.tar.gz either from my CPAN directory via Show quoted text

cpan> install MSTROUT/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.58_01.tar.gz

or by direct download from http://www.trout.me.uk/perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.58_01.tar.gz

Wed Aug 03 16:28:59 2011 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Wed Aug 03 16:28:59 2011 rt-cpan [...] trout.me.uk - Status changed from 'open' to 'patched'

Fri Aug 05 14:51:04 2011 rt-cpan [...] trout.me.uk - Correspondence added

Released in 6.59. Thanks very much for the report!

Fri Aug 05 14:51:06 2011 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'patched' to 'open'

Fri Aug 05 14:51:06 2011 rt-cpan [...] trout.me.uk - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'