Re: [Module::Build] [PATCH] Failure to find local 'lib' dir during M::B install with tests that chdir

[Chris D. <ch...@cl...>]

On May 12, 2006, at 12:13 PM, Ken Williams wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> Your patch shouldn't work - curdir() doesn't return an absolute  
> path, just a string like ".".
>
> I suspect your change seemed to fix your problem because you tested  
> manually, i.e. not using CPANPLUS?
>
>  -Ken

Ken,

Hmm, you're absolutely right, sorry about that.  So, my diagnosis was  
completely wrong and it's CP+ that's grabbing the wrong M::B and not  
the fault of the chdir?

[time passes]

Now that I have read over the code to CPANPLUS::Dist::Build that  
seems to be the case.  CP+ doesn't consider the case where it is  
building Module::Build itself, and uses a pre-loaded M::B.  It seems  
to me that CPANPLUS::Dist::Build should fall back to Makefile.PL mode  
(i.e. running external files) when it detects that its trying to  
compile M::B itself.

What a quagmire...

Chris
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