Hi Dave,

> 
> 
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Hill, Ronald wrote:
> 
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> Hmm, the recent releases of Archive::Tar are totally 
> rewritten in Perl, primarily in order to work 
> consistently across all platforms.  What
> version do you have?

I curently have version 0.23
I checked th eBuild.pl file and followed the recommendations

'Archive::Tar' => 0.23,

I will install the 1.03 version that I found on cpan

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> 
> > > includes a "./Build ppd" action to auto-generate a ppd file,
> > > which may be useful.
> >
> > F:\perl_modules\DateTime-TimeZone-0.21>perl build ppd
> > Cannot create a PPD file unless codebase argument is given
> > I checked the docs for Module-Build and found no reference
> > to the ppd function. So I have no idea what it wants.
> 
> This would be in the Build.PL file in the call to Module::Build->new()
> 
> I'm the one who wrote most of the code in Module::Build::PPMMaker, and
> honestly I have no idea how correct it is.  I couldn't find much good
> documentation of PPM/PPD stuff.

You might want to talk to Randy Kobes on this. He is the one
that knows ppm the most.

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> 
> I didn't say that would work ;)  I just said it should install without
> needing a compiler or nmake, via the CPAN shell or from the 
> command line.
> 
> 
Don't mind me, I'm just having a bad day with perl ;)

Ron Hill

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