Re: perl package build failing - running config for CPAN.pm

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 23 May 2009, Jens Rehsack wrote:

> David Brownlee wrote:
> >     www/p5-Catalyst-Action-RenderView and several other
> >     perl packages now seem to fail to build with the
> >     error below - has anyone else seen this?
>
> seb@ had fixed sth. similar (I don't remember where), but it seems some
> newer CPAN modules comes with such an AutoInstall routine in their Makefile.PL.
>
> I do not recognize them all (sometimes I see and that I patch them out
> before committing the update), because I have a configured CPAN.pm.
> If you see it again, either you ask pkgsrc-p5-people@ if you don't have time
> to add a similar patch (I just fix www/p5-Catalyst-Action-RenderView) or
> apply a similar patch.

        Thanks. This is going to be mildly annoying to find and patch
        in each case. Would it be possible for pkgsrc to
        a) Provide fake cpan config
        a) Add a subst rule to handle this automatically for perl
           packages?