On Saturday, May 3, 2003, at 11:22 AM, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> On Sat, 3 May 2003 msc...@ao... wrote:
>
>> just received a message from someone not able to install
>> Log::Log4perl,
>> because Log::Dispatch 2.06 needs Module::Build which contains an
>> error.
>>
>> He's using a standard SuSe distribution with perl 5.8.0, perl -V
>> output
>> and CPAN shell output attached to this email.
>
> Looks like he has CPAN set to provide the "POLLUTE=1" argument to all
> modules, which is a pretty wack thing to be doing, since that's
> something
> the module _author_ should generally do, not the installer.
> Module::Build's EU::MakeMaker compatibility code doesn't recognize that
> argument, and so it dies. I'll make a patch for M::B to recognize more
> old EU::MM command-line pieces.
I've applied this.
-Ken
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