Re: DBI package problem?

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 11:40:35PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> In practice this results in circa 70% of smoke testers running the
> module with DBI installed.
> 
> The remaining 30% however, fails with this error:
> =================================
> #   Failed test 'use DBI;'
> #   at t/00-load.t line 4.
> #     Tried to use 'DBI'.
> #     Error:  Can't locate DBI.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> [...snip...]) at (eval 4) line 2.
> # BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 4) line 2.
> =================================
> 
> I could easily change the "use DBI" line into a conditional "require
> DBI::PurePerl" during BEGIN, but this does not fix the root of the
> problem, namely that the PurePerl version of DBI never gets installed.

We don't know the *root* of the problem. The error you quote above just
a symptom of an earlier problem.

Where do you get the 70%/30% ratio from?

I'd like to see details of the specific underlying problems that cause
build failures with the current release. Ideally with some indication of
which are the most frequent.

Tim.