Re: [Module-build-general] bug in Module-Build-0.18

[jk <bil...@fa...>]

Ken Williams wrote:

>
> On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 07:14  PM, jk wrote:
>
>> I wanted to install Module::Build on my computer.  I keep my perl 
>> modules in /home/me/data/perl58, so I did this:
>>
>> perl Build.PL sitelib=/home/me/data/perl58/
>> ./Build
>> ./Build test
>> ./Build install
>>
>> ...but it still trys to install into /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/ 
>> (where it has no permissions) rather than /home/me/data/perl58/ as I 
>> asked.
>>
>> Using a standard RedHat 9 Linux box with perl 5.8.
>>
>> Please let me know if I'm doing something wrong.  Thanks for the help.
>
>
> Hi jk,
>
> The local-directory support for Module::Build is still woefully 
> inadequate.  It's a goal for version 0.19.  One way (the only way?) to 
> install locally with 0.18 is this:
>
>  perl Build.PL config=sitelib=/home/me/data/perl58/
>  ./Build
>  ./Build test
>  ./Build fakeinstall     (to check what it'll do in 'install')
>  ./Build install
>
> I swear we'll try to make this better soon.
>
>  -Ken
>
>
Thanks Ken!  This worked and Module::Build is now installed locally 
where it should be.  I guess as Dave observed the docs should be updated.

A couple other observations that might be helpful:

1)  When I ran "./Build test" I got a couple of tests fail, indicating 
they could not find Module::Info.pm.  I do have it installed locally (in 
the  /home/me/data/perl58/  tree), and I do have the PERL5LIB 
environmental variable set to indicate it... is it possible that 
Module::Build doesn't know about PERL5LIB and doesn't add it to the @INC 
array?

The relevant error messages are here:
=====================================================================
[me@mcc Module-Build-0.18]$ ./Build test
t/basic.........ok
t/runthrough....ok 4/13B::Module::Info,packages use failed with 2 saying:
Can't locate B/Module/Info.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
/home/me/.cpan/sources/authors/id/K/KW/KWILLIAMS/Module-Build-0.18/blib/lib 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /    usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/    perl5/5.8.0 .) 
at (eval 1) line 18. 
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 18.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
t/runthrough....ok 6/13B::Module::Info,packages use failed with 2 saying:
Can't locate B/Module/Info.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
/home/me/.cpan/sources/authors/id/K/KW/KWILLIAMS/Module-Build-0.18/blib/lib 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 .) at 
(eval 1) line 18.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 18.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
t/runthrough....ok
t/xs............ok
All tests successful.
Files=3, Tests=32,  9 wallclock secs ( 5.20 cusr +  0.49 csys =  5.69 CPU)
[me@mcc Module-Build-0.18]$

[me@mcc me]$ env | grep PERL
PERL5LIB=/home/me/data/perl58/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0:/home/me/data/perl58/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi:/home/me/data/perl58/lib/perl5/5.8.0:/home/me/data/perl58/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
[me@mcc me]$

=====================================================================


2) I originally tried to install Module::Build and various other modules 
using the CPAN.pm module, but this didn't work because the version of 
CPAN.pm I have doesn't know anything about using Build.pm rather than 
make.   It would be good to give the CPAN.pm people a heads up about 
Build.pm so they can support it  (this may already have been done).

Thanks for the help, and thanks for making Module::Build.  Looking 
forward to using it.

jk