Bug #80594 for Date-Manip: Date::Manip 6.36 PaxHeaders Makefile.PL breaks build

On Nov 2, 2012, at 4:26 PM, "Sullivan Beck via RT" <bug-Date-Manip@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text
No, this is from cpan. Yes, there's no PaxHeadersfoo in the tarball. Something's whacked in CPAN's setup: cpan[1]> install Date::Manip CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.22) Going to read '/Users/john/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on Sat, 03 Nov 2012 01:07:03 GMT Running install for module 'Date::Manip' Running make for S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-6.36.tar.gz CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.47) CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.024) Checksum for /Users/john/.cpan/sources/authors/id/S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-6.36.tar.gz ok Scanning cache /Users/john/.cpan/build for sizes ............................................................................DONE DEL(1/1): /Users/john/.cpan/build/SBECK-2pFu6_ CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.54) ./PaxHeaders.11917/Date-Manip-6.36 Date-Manip-6.36/ Date-Manip-6.36/PaxHeaders.11917/lib Date-Manip-6.36/lib/ Date-Manip-6.36/lib/PaxHeaders.11917/Date Date-Manip-6.36/lib/Date/ Date-Manip-6.36/lib/Date/PaxHeaders.11917/Manip.pod Date-Manip-6.36/lib/Date/Manip.pod Date-Manip-6.36/lib/Date/PaxHeaders.11917/Manip.pm Date-Manip-6.36/lib/Date/Manip.pm ... Regards, Jophn Ralls

I've never seen this before, so I'm not sure if I'm going to be of any help. I am curious what OS (and version) you're on. I found out a very small amount about pax. It's something to do with posix compliant tar files, but I don't know what exactly is happening that the PAX directory is getting created when you extract that tar file. If you learn anything (or figure out what the problem is), let me konw.

I'd usually file this as a bug, but it seems relevant here. I'm on OS X Snow Leopard, more details at the end. Package seems to come without Makefile.PL. (The test -f "/Users/leegoddard/.cpan/build/SBECK-ofQZrE/Makefile.PL" returned false.) Writing one on our own (setting NAME to DateManip) CPAN.pm: Going to build S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-6.36.tar.gz Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Warning: prerequisite Test::Inter 0 not found. Bareword found where operator expected at ./Makefile.PL line 1, near "30 mtime" (Missing operator before mtime?) Number found where operator expected at ./Makefile.PL line 2, near "30" (Missing semicolon on previous line?) Bareword found where operator expected at ./Makefile.PL line 2, near "30 atime" (Missing operator before atime?) Number found where operator expected at ./Makefile.PL line 3, near "30" (Missing semicolon on previous line?) Bareword found where operator expected at ./Makefile.PL line 3, near "30 ctime" (Missing operator before ctime?) ERROR from evaluation of /Users/leegoddard/.cpan/build/SBECK-ofQZrE/Date-Manip-6.36/Makefile.PL: ERROR from evaluation of /Users/leegoddard/.cpan/build/SBECK-ofQZrE/Date-Manip-6.36/PaxHeaders.11917/Makefile.PL: syntax error at ./Makefile.PL line 1, near "30 mtime" Warning: No success on command[/opt/local/bin/perl Makefile.PL] SBECK/Date-Manip-6.36.tar.gz /opt/local/bin/perl Makefile.PL -- NOT OK Running make test Make had some problems, won't test Running make install Make had some problems, won't install Failed during this command: SBECK/Date-Manip-6.36.tar.gz : writemakefile NO '/opt/local/bin/perl Makefile.PL' returned status 65280 cpan[2]> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 12 subversion 4) configuration: Platform: osname=darwin, osvers=10.8.0, archname=darwin-thread-multi-2level uname='darwin beta.macosforge.org 10.8.0 darwin kernel version 10.8.0: tue jun 7 16:33:36 pdt 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1release_i386 i386 ' config_args='-D inc_version_list=5.12.3/darwin-thread-multi-2level 5.12.3 5.12.2/darwin-thread-multi-2level 5.12.2 5.12.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level 5.12.1 5.12.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level 5.12.0 -des -Dprefix=/opt/local -Dscriptdir=/opt/local/bin -Dcppflags=-I/opt/local/include -Dccflags=-pipe -O2 -Dldflags=-L/opt/local/lib -Dvendorprefix=/opt/local -Dusemultiplicity=y -Dusethreads -Duseshrplib -D cc=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -D ld=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -D man1ext=1pm -D man3ext=3pm -D man1dir=/opt/local/share/man/man1p -D man3dir=/opt/local/share/man/man3p -D sitebin=/opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin -D siteman1dir=/opt/local/share/perl5.12/siteman/man1 -D siteman3dir=/opt/local/share/perl5.12/siteman/man3 -D vendorbin=/opt/local/libexec/perl5.12 -D vendorman1dir=/opt/local/share/perl5.12/man/man1 -D vendorman3dir=/opt/local/share/perl5.12/man/man3 -D pager=/usr/bin/less -sR -D perlpath=/opt/local/bin/perl5.12 -D startperl=#!/opt/local/bin/perl5.12' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='/usr/bin/gcc-4.2', ccflags ='-pipe -O2 -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -I/opt/local/include -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector -I/opt/local/include', optimize='-O3', cppflags='-I/opt/local/include -no-cpp-precomp -pipe -O2 -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -I/opt/local/include -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector -I/opt/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6 /usr/bin/gcc-4.2', ldflags ='-L/opt/local/lib -fstack-protector' libpth=/opt/local/lib /usr/lib libs=-lgdbm -ldbm -ldl -lm -lutil -lc perllibs=-ldl -lm -lutil -lc libc=, so=dylib, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.dylib gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-L/opt/local/lib -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -fstack-protector' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF USE_REENTRANT_API Built under darwin Compiled at Jun 25 2012 23:37:34 @INC: /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4/darwin-thread-multi-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4 /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.4/darwin-thread-multi-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.4 /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4/darwin-thread-multi-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4 /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl . Lee:trunk leegoddard$

I'll see if I can find someone here who can let me use an OSX machine for a few hours. I do not have one. I'm not at all sure I'll be able to do anything about this, but I'd like to understand it more. There may be something I can do to workaround this.

Closing ticket since this doesn't appear to be related directly to Date::Manip.

This was just reported to me on both Windows and SunOS, so this is NOT related to OSX. It turns out that the version of tar distributed by my linux distro (OpenSuSE) now defaults to --format=posix instead of the traditional -- format=gnu and this was the cause of the problem. Other CPAN modules are now exhibiting this behavior too, and I don't have a global workaround. In the case of Date::Manip, I'll be explicitly tarring it up with -- format=gnu in the future, and that will fix the problem. This will be fixed in 6.38 which I will release in the next day or so.