Re: [Module::Build] win32 install problem

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

On May 16, 2006, at 11:12 PM, Randy W. Sims wrote:

> Ben Lavender wrote:
>> The supplied patch gets me to perl Build test, which fails at this  
>> point:
>> t\runthrough......ok 13/28Use of uninitialized value in pattern  
>> match (m//) at c
>> :/work/Perl/lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm line 72.
>> Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at c:/work/Perl/ 
>> lib/File/Spec/
>> Win32.pm line 72.
>> Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at c:/work/Perl/ 
>> lib/File/Spec/
>> Win32.pm line 140.
>> t\runthrough......ok 19/28
>> t\runthrough......NOK 20#   Failed test in t\runthrough.t at line  
>> 151.
>> #          got: 'Can't locate object method "create_archive" via  
>> package "Archiv
>> e::Tar" (perhaps you forgot to load "Archive::Tar"?) at C:\work 
>> \mbtest\Module-Bu
>> ild-0.28\blib\lib/Module/Build/Base.pm line 3436.
>> # '
>> #     expected: ''
>> t\runthrough......ok 28/28# Looks like you failed 1 test of 28.
>
> The patch works because it throws away the volume part, but the  
> volume shouldn't be there at all.

Yeah, it shouldn't, but there it is. =)  Older versions of File::Spec  
include it, and even though it's not strictly incorrect to have a  
drive letter on a relative path, if we don't jump through the  
byzantine File::Spec hoops correctly we'll screw things up.

Newer versions of File::Spec don't include the drive letter in this  
situation - there are some regression tests in File::Spec now to  
ensure that.

  -Ken