On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 08:31:20AM -0300, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm receiving FAIL reports from one of my distributions and I'm > wondering if is a problem with the distribution itself or the smoker > configuration.
... > Maybe is due old versions of ExtUtils::MakeMaker? I'm using 6.96, > one of the smokers was with 6.63_02. That's exactly it -- TEST_REQUIRES wasn't added until 6.63_03 -- one version later than what came with core until perl 5.17.6 (just over a year ago). You can solve this in a few ways: - add a prereq of ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.64 to CONFIGURE_REQUIRES, and also "use ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.64" at the top of Makefile.PL - duplicate your TEST_REQUIRES prereqs as BUILD_REQUIRES -- this is a little inaccurate, but not too bad usually - selectively move TEST_REQUIRES content to BUILD_REQUIRES if the version is too low -- this is what dists generated via Dist::Zilla do, and many hand-written Makefile.PLs -- e.g. see https://metacpan.org/source/ETHER/Class-Method-Modifiers-2.10/Makefile.PL#L63 or https://metacpan.org/source/HAARG/Moo-1.004002/Makefile.PL#L75 You can easily get yourself into a hole writing lots of custom Makefile.PL code (I speak from experience!) :) -- so I'd strongly recommend options 1 or 2 for all but the most complicated distributions.
