Craig Berry wrote: >>> Fix it? What's broken about it on VMS? There's a distinct lack of VMS bug >>> reports in its bug queue and I have a commit bit. >>> http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=ExtUtils-AutoInstall > > The "it" that doesn't work on VMS is CPAN (the module, not the archive), not > necessarily ExtUtils::AutoInstall (though I'm not sure about that either). > Fixing either one might well be non-trivial. Reporting bugs certainly can't > hurt, though there are very few CPAN authors with the ability and inclination > to reproduce and fix VMS-specific bugs. But the main problem is that none of > the observed symptoms give us any idea which module to report a bug against.
When in doubt, start with the top. Report it to CPAN.pm. >>> Otherwise the META.yml file will list a module's dependencies for manual >>> installation. >>> >> Determining a module's dependencies is not the problem. In fact, I had >> already installed all of this particular module's dependencies before I >> even attempted to install the module. Attempting to install the module >> results in the following: >> $ perl makefile.pl >> ==> ExtUtils::AutoInstall 0.52 required. Install it from CPAN? [Y/n] n >> >> Can't locate ExtUtils/AutoInstall.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > > What module did this happen with? Since ExtUtils::AutoInstall is supposed to > be included in every module that uses it, it seems like a bug to require a > higher version of it than the one it comes with. There is a documented option to ship a nasty, compressed block of code to self-install ExtUtils::AutoInstall which has little hope of working most anywhere but Unix. I suspect its using that or one of the many earlier versions (*sigh* cut & code). http://search.cpan.org/~autrijus/ExtUtils-AutoInstall-0.63/lib/ExtUtils/AutoInstall.pm#Self-Download_Code
