Slaven Rezic <sla...@rezic.de> writes:
> David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 03:55:30PM +0000, Alceu R. de Freitas Jr. wrote:
>>
>>> Despite my efforts, the new release also showed the same error in one of
>>> your boxes:
>>> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/30beda64-7f90-11e8-bec4-48217347484a
>>> Could you please try to help me in discovering why Log::Log4perl is
>>> not being installed in this case?
>>
>> CCing cpan-testers-discuss because I'm stumped here.
>>
>> Here <https://pastebin.com/CFW7Aqs5> is the raw output from running
>> perl-5.14.4/bin/cpan Archive::Tar::Wrapper
>>
>> As you can see it fetches and untars the dist, runs Makefile.PL, which
>> correctly warns about the missing deps and does its usual dance. Here
>> <https://pastebin.com/XRiWqYmd> is the generated MYMETA.yml. But then
>> CPAN.pm doesn't spot that there are dependencies missing and carries on
>> to the 'make' and 'make test' phases, which then blows up.
>>
>> I can't see anything especially weird in Makefile.PL that would cause
>> this. Anyone else got any idea?
>>
>> This only happens in 5.14.4. I have test passes for 5.16 onwards, and
>> also for 5.8.9.
>>
>> In 5.12, Makefile.PL dies thus:
>>
>> Warning: prerequisite IPC::Run 0 not found.
>> Warning: prerequisite Log::Log4perl 0 not found.
>> Warning: prerequisite Test::Simple 1.302073 not found. We have 1.302059.
>> only nested arrays of non-refs are supported at
>> /home/david/cpantesting/perl-5.12.5/lib/5.12.5/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
>> line 664
>> (/home/david/cpantesting/perl-5.12.5/bin/perl Makefile.PL exited with
>> 65280)
>>
>> So I presume that there's something Odd in the metadata that only
>> affects some combinations of versions of CPAN.pm and EU::MM, but I can't
>> spot what it is.
>
> I did some experiments with a clean perl install in a docker container
> (see attached Dockerfile). It seems that the dependency resolution is
> broken with perl 5.14.4, 5.15.0 and 5.15.1, and started to work with
> 5.15.2 again.
>
> Upgrading various CPAN-related modules in 5.14.4 (CPAN, CPAN::Meta,
> CPAN::Meta::YAML...) did not help.
I think it's EUMM. If I add
RUN perlbrew exec --with perl-5.14.4 cpan
MSTROUT/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.59.tar.gz
into the Dockerfile, then it works also with perl 5.14.4.
Regards,
Slaven
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