[log4perl-devel] Re: Can't install Log::Dispatch 2.06 because of Module::Build

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

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