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Moin,

On Friday 16 July 2004 12:50, Randy W. Sims wrote:
> Tels wrote:
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> > I really wonder what is going on with their build system,
>
> It looks like it is somehow failing to detect the failed dependencies. I
> don't know what versions of M::BI and M::BF ship with ActiveState's
> perl-their releases don't neccessarily conicide with official releases.
> I'm guessing based on observations that their script does something like
>
> * Clean libs from previous installs, restoring the perl install to a
> clean slate.
> * Download and untar the module.
> * Run make.
> * If there are unsatified dependencies, install them recursively.
> * Run make test.
> * If it passes, build binary ppm and move it to the repository.
>
> The two places where it is likely to fail are 1) building & installing a
> dependency, and 2) doing the make test.
>
> Your module is obvious failing during the 'make test'. It looks like it
> didn't detect the missing dependencies or it would have tried to install
> them first and if it couldn't it would have failed at that point...

Maybe it installed them, but to a different dir, and then "make test" used
still the one in the core (e.g. the older one).

> But most of this is just guessing. I'd try posting to ActiveState's ppm
> mailing list <http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/>.

I'll try that.

Cheers,

Tels

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