Hi Dave, > > > On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Hill, Ronald wrote: > [snipped]
> 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 [more snippage] > > > > 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. [more snippage] > > 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
