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

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

On Mon, 25 May 2009, Jens Rehsack wrote:

> David Brownlee wrote:
> > 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?
>
> It seems to happen with Module::Install only. I try to talk to Adam Kennedy
> if there are reasonable solutions.
> In this case, we can handle a third module install type in addition to
> MakeMaker and Module::Build - Module::Install.

        That sounds ideal. www/p5-Catalyst-Devel may be a good test case
        for this as it doesn't have the explicit autoinstall line in
        Makefile.PL but still calls in CPAN configuration
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