On Wednesday 26 September 2007 4:40 pm, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Graham TerMarsch wrote: > > How about I take a different approach here, and ask... > > > > What would be the recommended way to minimize the number of automated > > CPANPLUS test failures, knowing that I -have- to have Apache::Test > > installed in order for the tests to run successfully? > > Write a Build.PL with a compatibility Makefile.PL and make sure that > Apache::Test is in the MakeMaker PREREQ_PM. You appear to be doing that so > it should work. Is it not?
No. The gotcha is, that when "perl Makefile.PL" is run, if Apache::Test isn't installed at -that- moment, it doesn't set up the test harness properly. Even if the build tool goes out and downloads and installs Apache::Test, it'd need to come back and re-run "perl Makefile.PL" again before attempting to build/test/install my package. CPANPLUS doesn't do that. Instead, it just goes back and runs "make" after its installed the dependencies. Thus, -none- of the test suites succeed, as the harness wasn't set up properly when "perl Makefile.PL" was run. Sucks. -- Graham TerMarsch
