Re: [Module::Build] Archive::Tar file format

[Randy K. <ra...@th...>]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Glenn Linderman wrote:

> d:\GFfP>perl build dist
> Deleting META.yml
> Creating GFfP-0.1.tar.gz
[ ... ]
> d:\GFfP>perl build ppd
> Using default codebase 'GFfP-0.1.tar.gz'
>
> d:\GFfP>dir *.gz
>
> 01/12/2004  10:27a               7,316 GFfP-0.1.tar.gz
>
> d:\GFfP>ppm install GFfP.ppd
> ====================
> Install 'GFfP' version 0.1 in ActivePerl 5.8.0.805.
> ====================
> Successfully installed GFfP version 0.1 in ActivePerl 5.8.0.805.

I think the problem here is that the 'dist' build target
makes an archive suitable for CPAN, whereas the archive
that ppm expects (as specified by the codebase) is just
an archive of the blib/ directory. Try
   perl build ppd
   tar cvf GFfP-0.1.tar blib
   gzip --best GFfP-0.1.tar
   ppm install GFfP.ppd

-- 
best regards,
randy