Re: [PATCH] Re: [Module-build-general] Breaking CPAN installs..

[Soren A <per...@wo...>]

For future ref, it's ok, I don't need CC:s. Thanks all the same.

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:40:14PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
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> Module::Build should deal with the most common arguments one would put
> into something automated like the CPAN shell.  verbose must have
> slipped by.  Its a bit odd, it doesn't follow the convention of a lot
> of others.

Exactly. It's quite odd. It's the only argument that the ordinary
invocation takes, actually, AFAICR, that's just a single statement and
not a key-value pair.

> Here's a patch for it.

Looks good. Thanks, trying it now ... {much time elapsing} HUHHH, what a
stupid fellow I am. I tried it out on the most likely candidate I could
lay my hands on, M::B itself ...

Tried to just do a "get" to the CPAN build area in the CPAN shell, then
patch the file in-place. DON'T anybody else waste your time trying that.
After much fussing I decided that it must mess with `make' horribly,
upsetting by altering the file timestamps. With care I applied the patch
and let CPAN run 'test' and everything was fine.

At least I now have M::B in 5.8.0 as well as in 5.6.1, that's a plus.

Thanks for the patch, Michael. I dub thee Sir Insty-Patch.

   Soren