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#189 "META.yml missing from your kit" error message
Installing 0.5.42 on Mac OSX 10.3.9.
Installation fails with the following message:
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Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
META.yml
Please inform the author.
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The file found is on the last line of MANIFEST:
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META.yml Module meta-data (added by MakeMaker)
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Please advise what to do?
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My apologies.
The Makefile does fail, and it does fail right after that
message, but they appear to be unconnected.
The real error message related to the failure is
bad makefile line: ' $(NOECHO) $(NOOP)' at Makefile.PL
line 1031.
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are you using GNU make?
are you typeing "perl Makefile.PL" to build the makefile?
Robert
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>are you using GNU make?
Yes:
% make -v
GNU Make version 3.79, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for powerpc-apple-darwin7.0
>are you typeing "perl Makefile.PL" to build the
makefile?
Yes.
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I get the same with 0.5.42 and CVS downloaded 13/02/2006
03:30. With CVS ....
Checking if your kit is complete...
Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
META.yml
Please inform the author.
bad makefile line: ' $(NOECHO) $(NOOP)' at Makefile.PL
line 1077.
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I forgot to add SuSE 10.1 Beta3 x86.
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Same problem here for me with gentoo.
bad makefile line: ' $(NOECHO) $(NOOP)' at Makefile.PL
line 1031.
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Same problem with Arch Linux now.
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Same problem with Arch Linux now.
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Same problem with Arch Linux now.
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Same problem with Arch Linux now.
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Fedora Core 5 also bails out with the two warnings/errors:
Checking if your kit is complete...
Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
META.yml
Please inform the author.
bad makefile line: ' $(NOECHO) $(NOOP)' at Makefile.PL
line 1032.
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This is fixed in CVS with a change to Makefile.PL:
- elsif (/^\t/ and defined $curr_target) {
+ elsif (/^\s+/ and defined $curr_target) {
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Thanks, Ed, that fixes it and I'll get a package for FC5 up
at ATrpms within the day.