'sprintf' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Hi,

I am trying to make the makefile with the option of inserting
testuser, testpassword and testhost into "perl.exe Makefile.PL"
command line, but I keep getting "'sprintf' is not recognized as an
internal or external command, operable program or batch file."

C:\CPANTesters\Perl5.10.0\cpan\build\DBD-mysql-4.018-d8v5HG>perl.exe
Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site --testuser=cpantesters
--testpassword=cpantesters --testhost=localhost
'sprintf' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Problem running C:\CPANTE~1\bin\MYSQL-~1.11-\bin\MYSQLA~1.EXE - aborting ...

I trace it down and this is the part of Makefile.PL that doesn't work.

    my $v;
    if ( defined $opt->{'testuser'} and defined $opt->{'testpassword'}) {
        $v = qx( sprintf('%s --user=%s --password=%s version',
$mysqladmin , $opt->{'testuser'}, $opt->{'testpassword'}) );
    } else {
        $v = qx($mysqladmin version);
    }

Taking the sprintf() out of qx() works.

    my $v;
    if ( defined $opt->{'testuser'} and defined $opt->{'testpassword'}) {
        my $line = sprintf('%s --user=%s --password=%s version',
$mysqladmin , $opt->{'testuser'}, $opt->{'testpassword'});
        $v = qx( $line );
    } else {
        $v = qx($mysqladmin version);
    }

I can reproduce this on the latest ActiveState Perl 5.12.3 (1204) too.

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