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> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 22:02:39 +0000
> From: ch...@bingosnet.co.uk
> To: n...@shore.net
> CC: ch...@bingosnet.co.uk; cpan-testers-discuss@perl.org
> Subject: Re: PASS with no test output
>
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 11:59:47AM -0800, Nathan (Nat) Goodman wrote:
> > Thanks, Chris! I appreciate the response.
> >
> > Best,
> > Nat
> >
>
> Further to my previous message, after building a v5.16.2 perl, setting up
> with Test::Reporter::Transport::File and doing numerous tests I have tracked
> down a bug in CPANPLUS::Dist::Build, the installer type for Module::Build
> based distributions in CPANPLUS.
>
> It seems if a Build.PL exits with 0 (like yours does) without generating a
> Build script, that CPANPLUS::Dist::Build then proceeds to try and run this
> mythical Build script and eventually generates a PASS report without any
> content. This is obviously wrong.
>
> I'm working on a solution.
>
> You can pretty much disregard any PASS test reports from me that have
> no test output.
>
I think I read somewhere ( see http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/CPANAuthorNotes
"dcantrell: some really old distributions have no Makefile.PL, so CPAN.pm
makes one up. "), at one point in history, Perl 4 or early 5 days, XS
modules didn't come with any makefile.pl or build.pl. MakeMaker or CPAN
shell created a default makefile to compile that module, kindda like make can
compile things without a makefile present using builtin rules.
