Re: [Module::Build] Help: Module::Build V 0.21 under WinXP

[Randy W. S. <Ra...@Th...>]

On 11/6/2003 1:16 AM, Ron Savage wrote:

> On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 00:38:24 -0500, Randy W. Sims wrote:
> 
> Hi Randy
> 
> 
>>That should be 'codebase', and that should be given on the command
>>line
>>for the ppd target.
>>
>>perl Build ppd codebase="./x86/CGI-Explorer-2.02.tar.gz"
> 
> 
> OK.
> 
> The output is:
> -----><8-----
>     <IMPLEMENTATION>
>         <CODEBASE HREF="./x86/CGI-Explorer-2.02.tar.gz" />
>     </IMPLEMENTATION>
> -----><8-----
> whereas it should look like (this is downloaded from Randy Kobe's 
> site):
> -----><8-----
> 	<IMPLEMENTATION>
> 		<OS NAME="MSWin32" />
> 		<ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8" />
> 		<CODEBASE 
> HREF="http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/x86/Module-Build.tar.gz" />
> 	</IMPLEMENTATION>
> -----><8-----

I've taken a quick look a Dave's code, and it seems to me it is doing 
the right thing. If there is no XS code, it assumes that this is a 
cross-platform module, so it omits the OS & ARCHITECTURE tags. Does ppm 
fail without those tags?

>>For the errors, try updating your version of Archive::Tar from:
>>
>><http://p4.elixus.org/snap/Archive-Tar.tar.gz>
> 
> That version makes a difference:
> 
> But CGI-Explorer-2.02.tar.gz does not contain any paths :-(.

Ok. I'll try to look into this tonight. I seem to recall running into 
this problem in some script I wrote a while back. Does this occur only 
on Windows...

Randy.

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