Re: [Module::Build] win32 install problem

[Ben L. <bla...@gm...>]

> I don't know what you tried. Here's what I just did, using ppm V 2.1.6 & Perl V
> 5.8.7 from Randy Kobes at uwinnipeg:
>

I tried two things:  Installing archive::tar manually, which died
somehow with nmake; this is not uncommon for attempting to install
packages on win32.

As A::T wanted to use nmake, which often means a package wants to do
something funky with its install, I didn't want to install it
manually.  ppm at version 2 doesn't much like to upgrade packages it
uses, and when I renamed it as a test, ppm wouldn't start, as your
example shows.  A bit more funging didn't help any.

As it turns out, though, installing it manually via copying from the
tar.gz (ugh), as you suggest, did the trick just fine.  M::B built,
tested, installed and worked, and all was well on my little
overly-paranoid development platform.  This was using the patch
supplied by Ken W. a few days ago.

I'm continually astounded by the help I find on mailing lists for perl
modules.  Thanks to everyone for the extra help on this.

Ben