Hi, Sorry, I'll take responsibility for lack of reporting. I found this when trying to install several modules after I installed the latest version of MakeMaker. Craig figured out what the problem might have been; but his patch did not pass all the mm tests.
This bug report refers to failed attempts to install XML::XSLT I have not previously filed any bug reports for perl, except by posting here on VMS Perl. I am sending a copy of this e-mail to report the bug, as I don't care to register for a BitCard. The big picture: (on VMS): mmk install fails, if the install script needs to write into the top level directory perl_root:[utils]. This happens with both 5.9.4 and 5.8.6, running on OpenVMS 7.3-2. >From my original post to VMSPerl on Mon 9/25/2006 2:27 PM: "Finally I built XML::XSLT, and all tests passed. Unfortunately, I can not get XML::XSLT installed (from the SYSTEM account), neither with MMK, nor with MMS. Here's the mms output: mms /list=xlst_install.log install !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ERROR: Can't create 'perl_root:[utils]' Unknown Error !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! at -e line 1 %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort %MMS-F-ABORT, For target PURE_SITE_INSTALL, CLI returned abort status: %X0000002C. -SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort I have attached the mms output xslt_install.log (I changed the name from the mangled typo above). I used MMK throughout the above, and it gave the exact same error; I now tried MMS, just in case (and I knew how to log the actions). -------------------------------------------------------------------- I have attached the log file. Carl Friedberg Comet & Company 165 William St 9 NY NY 10038 www.comets.com (212) 233-5470 > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael G Schwern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 11:50 PM > To: Craig A. Berry > Cc: Carl Friedberg; vmsperl@perl.org > Subject: Re: ExtUtils::Install::_can_write_dir bug (was RE: > XML::Parser XML::DOM XML::XSLT) > > Craig A. Berry wrote: > > At 9:02 AM -0400 9/29/06, Carl Friedberg wrote: > >> I've found the deadly combination: MakeMaker 6.30-2, VMS > 7.3-2, Perl > >> 5.8.6, and a perl module with a script (which gets put > into perl_root:[utils]. > > > > The problem would happen for anything installed in the top level of > > the install target. The bug is in > ExtUtils::Install::_can_write_dir. > > The offending line (well, the root of the trouble), is: > > > > > > my @dirs=File::Spec->splitdir(File::Spec->rel2abs($dir)); > > > > > > splitdir, as its name implies, only operates on directories. > > rel2abs, on a platform that has the notion of disk volume that is > > syntactically different from a directory, includes the > volume as well > > as directories in its result. The function ends up calling > catdir on > > the results of splitdir, and the result of > catdir(splitdir('disk:[dir]')) > > is undefined: > > > > $ perl -"MFile::Spec" -e "print defined > File::Spec->catdir(File::Spec->splitdir('disk:[dir]')) ? 1 : 0;" > > 0 > > > > > > Possibly just replacing splitdir/catdir in this function with > > splitpath/catpath would work. I'll try it and post again. > > ExtUtils::Install's bug tracker is here: > http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=ExtUtils-Install > > I don't see this bug reported. If you don't tell the author, > he'll never know there's a problem. Posting to vmsperl > doesn't count, most CPAN authors don't read it. And don't > wait to have a patch to report a bug. >
xslt_install.log
Description: xslt_install.log
