Re: Perplexing bug report on Inline::CPP

IIRC, install Inline::Cpp should answer some questions before installation,
that might  lead to this problem?

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:51 AM, David Oswald <[email protected]> wrote:

> I just got a strange bug report on Inline::CPP, and don't see what the
> issue is.  This is against the current version, v0.39.
>
> Here's the report:
>
> ----------------------------
>
> I tried to install Inline::Cpp into Strawberry perl running under
> Windows  XP   (32 bit) but the build.log records FAIL:
>
> cpanm (App::cpanminus) 1.5013 on perl 5.014002 built for
> MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
> Work directory is /.cpanm/work/1344884468.1676
> You have make C:\Dwimperl\c\bin\dmake.exe
> You have LWP 6.03
> Falling back to Archive::Tar 1.80
> Searching Inline::CPP on cpanmetadb ...
> --> Working on Inline::CPP
> Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DA/DAVIDO/Inline-CPP-0.39.tar.gz
> -> OK
> Unpacking Inline-CPP-0.39.tar.gz
> Entering .
> META.yml not found or unparsable. Fetching META.yml from search.cpan.org
> Configuring Inline-CPP-0.39
> -> N/A
> -> FAIL The distribution doesn't have a proper Makefile.PL/Build.PL
> See \.cpanm\build.log for details.
>
> Any ideas on what I can do to install it ??
>
> -------------------------------
>
> To investigate, I attempted "cpanm Inline::CPP --reinstall", and got
> the following different message:
>
> $ cpanm Inline::CPP --reinstall
> --> Working on Inline::CPP
> Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DA/DAVIDO/Inline-CPP-0.39.tar.gz
> ... OK
> ! Bad archive: Inline-CPP-0.39.tar.gz
> ! Failed to unpack Inline-CPP-0.39.tar.gz: no directory
> ! Failed to fetch distribution Inline-CPP-0.39
>
>
> Yet if I download the tarball myself (the link above works fine, for
> example), and unpack it with 'tar -zxf Inline-CPP-0.39-tar.gz', it
> unpacks fine into ./Inline-CPP-0.39, and from there I'm able to
> perform the mantra without any problems.
>
> Also, if I remove the module from my system and then install it via
> the 'cpan' tool (instead of cpan minus), it works:
>
> cpan Inline::CPP
>
> ...works fine.
>
> Any thoughts?  Can anyone confirm the behavior?
>
>
> --
>
> David Oswald
> [email protected]
>