Re: your reports for Archive-Tar-Wrapper

David Cantrell <[email protected]> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 03:55:30PM +0000, Alceu R. de Freitas Jr. wrote:
>
>> Despite my efforts, the new release also showed the same error in one of your boxes:
>> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/30beda64-7f90-11e8-bec4-48217347484a
>> Could you please try to help me in discovering why Log::Log4perl is
>> not being installed in this case?
>
> CCing cpan-testers-discuss because I'm stumped here.
>
> Here <https://pastebin.com/CFW7Aqs5> is the raw output from running
> perl-5.14.4/bin/cpan Archive::Tar::Wrapper
>
> As you can see it fetches and untars the dist, runs Makefile.PL, which
> correctly warns about the missing deps and does its usual dance. Here
> <https://pastebin.com/XRiWqYmd> is the generated MYMETA.yml. But then
> CPAN.pm doesn't spot that there are dependencies missing and carries on
> to the 'make' and 'make test' phases, which then blows up.
>
> I can't see anything especially weird in Makefile.PL that would cause
> this. Anyone else got any idea?
>
> This only happens in 5.14.4. I have test passes for 5.16 onwards, and
> also for 5.8.9.
>
> In 5.12, Makefile.PL dies thus:
>
> Warning: prerequisite IPC::Run 0 not found.
> Warning: prerequisite Log::Log4perl 0 not found.
> Warning: prerequisite Test::Simple 1.302073 not found. We have 1.302059.
> only nested arrays of non-refs are supported at
> /home/david/cpantesting/perl-5.12.5/lib/5.12.5/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
> line 664
> (/home/david/cpantesting/perl-5.12.5/bin/perl Makefile.PL exited with
> 65280)
>
> So I presume that there's something Odd in the metadata that only
> affects some combinations of versions of CPAN.pm and EU::MM, but I can't
> spot what it is.

I did some experiments with a clean perl install in a docker container
(see attached Dockerfile). It seems that the dependency resolution is
broken with perl 5.14.4, 5.15.0 and 5.15.1, and started to work with
5.15.2 again.

Upgrading various CPAN-related modules in 5.14.4 (CPAN, CPAN::Meta,
CPAN::Meta::YAML...) did not help.

Regards,
    Slaven



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