Michael G Schwern wrote:
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.
Some of the bugs are definitely in CPAN.pm. Issuing sudo commands on
VMS is typically rather non-productive, for example (which this module
currently does).
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
Yup, that is what in the modules in question. This appears to be how
the author SPEEVES does his modules as all the ones I have fetched that
are maintained by him have this problem.
Mark Berryman
