On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote:
> "Robert J. Clay" <rjc...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > There is an ITP [1] I've been working on, wherein Debian package build
> > attempts just result in an error lke the following:
>
> > make[1]: *** No rule to make target
> > '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20/Config.pm', needed by 'Makefile'.
> > Stop.
>
> > It comes up when attempting to use 'gbp buildpackage' or 'debuild' [2],
> > under stretch, sid, or jessie. It does not come up when doing a normal
> > Perl module build ('perl Makefile.PL && make test', for instance). It
> > also does not come up attempting a Debian test build of another ITP I
> > have. (Can't finish that one because it's dependent on this one...)
>
> Usually this means that you've accidentally included a generated Makefile
> in the source package and are trying to use it,
Yes; as gregor noted, there is a 'Makefile' present in the distribution
archive.
> instead of running perl
> Makefile.PL to regenerate the Makefile.
Yeah, it's not getting that far.
> (And that generated Makefile was
> generated with an older version of Perl, namely 5.20 instead of 5.24 which
> is the current version in Debian unstable.)
>
>
>
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Robert J. Clay
rjc...@gmail.com
