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

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

On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 05:05  PM, jk wrote:
> 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?

Nope, not possible - but I did figure out what the problem is here.  
I'd seen this problem show up in a couple different ways, and the 
reason is that we chdir() a few times in the testing code, and any 
relative paths in @INC will be messed up if we load modules after that.

The fix for this, which I've applied in CVS, is to convert all the @INC 
paths to absolute paths.


> 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).

Yeah, as Dave said, this should have worked fine.  What happened?

  -Ken