Re^5: Strawberry Perl 5.12.3, CPAN, make file problems (dmake.exe), DFSEP and backslash "\"

I ran your command, and it looks okay to to me.

C:\strawberry\cpan\build\OLE-Storage_Lite-0.19-pT5XuU
> perl -V:make -V:perlpath -e " die $^X"
make='dmake';
perlpath='C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe';
C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe at -e line 1.
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After the perl Makefile.PL command, I look in the Makefile and see:

C:\strawberry\cpan\build\OLE-Storage_Lite-0.19-pT5XuU
> find "perl.exe" Makefile

---------- MAKEFILE
PERL = C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe
FULLPERL = C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe
          perl.exe so_locations \
FULLPERL      = C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe
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Any more suggestions?

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Re^6: Strawberry Perl 5.12.3, CPAN, make file problems (dmake.exe), DFSEP and backslash "\" by syphilis (Archbishop) on Feb 17, 2012 at 03:20 UTC
Any more suggestions? In my version of Strawberry, when I build IO-React-1.03, there's no problem. When I look at the generated Makefile I see: `DIRFILESEP = \\ DFSEP = $(DIRFILESEP)` [download] Next I open up lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm and I find in it: `sub init_DIRFILESEP { my($self) = shift; # The ^ makes sure its not interpreted as an escape in nmake $self->{DIRFILESEP} = $self->is_make_type('nmake') ? '^\\' : $self->is_make_type('dmake') ? '\\\\' : '\\'; }` [download] So I change the dmake setting (from 4 backslashes to 2) so that the sub now reads: `sub init_DIRFILESEP { my($self) = shift; # The ^ makes sure its not interpreted as an escape in nmake $self->{DIRFILESEP} = $self->is_make_type('nmake') ? '^\\' : $self->is_make_type('dmake') ? '\\' : '\\'; }` [download] Now ... have another go at building IO-React-1.03 (having first run 'dmake realclean'): C:\sisyphusion\IO-React-1.03>perl makefile.PL Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for IO::React Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json C:\sisyphusion\IO-React-1.03>dmake dmake: Error: -- `C:\_32\strawberry514\perl\libConfig.pm' not found, +and can't be made [download] Sure enough, when I look at the generated Makefile, I now find it's the same as yours wrt DIRFILESEP: `DIRFILESEP = \ DFSEP = $(DIRFILESEP)` [download] Your generated Makefile is wrong ... plain and simple ... you need to remedy whatever it is that keeps generating this fucked Makefile. In the above MM_Win32.pm sub, does `$self->is_make_type('dmake')` return true for you ? In essence, you just need to modify that sub so that it returns `\\\\` (4 backslashes) for you. Even if you just do it as: `sub init_DIRFILESEP { return '\\\\'; }` [download] That should do it. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^7: Strawberry Perl 5.12.3, CPAN, make file problems (dmake.exe), DFSEP and backslash "\" by jffry (Hermit) on Feb 17, 2012 at 17:43 UTC
Thanks for the help and insight, Rob. Both you and Eliya got me learning perl make Module internals, and I even learned a new idiom. I absolutely appreciate the effort you've shown in helping me. However, it was the thought of having to create a kludge for a freshly installed Strawberry Perl that really got me looking closely at what Anonymous was writing about cpan conf options, and that lead to a solution my neat-freak mentality preferred.	[reply]
Re^8: Strawberry Perl 5.12.3, CPAN, make file problems (dmake.exe), DFSEP and backslash "\" by Anonymous Monk on Feb 17, 2012 at 20:03 UTC
Well, for whatever its worth, strawberry-perl-5.12.3.0.zip does work out of the box `$ h2xs -b 5.5.0 -AX Titikaka Writing Titikaka/lib/Titikaka.pm Writing Titikaka/Makefile.PL Writing Titikaka/README Writing Titikaka/t/Titikaka.t Writing Titikaka/Changes Writing Titikaka/MANIFEST $ cd Titikaka $ ..\strawberry-perl-5.12.3.0\perl\bin\perl.exe Makefile.PL Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good ... Detected uninstalled Perl. Trying to continue. Have ..\strawb~1.0\perl\lib Want \strawberry\perl\lib Writing Makefile for Titikaka $ dmake cp lib/Titikaka.pm blib\lib\Titikaka.pm` [download] However, if you set the enviromental variable make to nmake, its the same as passing Makefile.PL make=nmake $ set make=nmake $ ..\strawberry-perl-5.12.3.0\perl\bin\perl.exe Makefile.PL Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for Titikaka Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json $ dmake dmake: Error: -- `..\strawberry-perl-5.12.3.0\perl\libConfig.pm' not +found, and can't be made [download] So that is the only thing I think it could be, that you have make=nmake in your env for some reason , or maybe DFSEP, nothing else makes sense :)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^9: Strawberry Perl 5.12.3, CPAN, make file problems (dmake.exe), DFSEP and backslash "\" by jffry (Hermit) on Feb 17, 2012 at 20:59 UTC
Re^10: Strawberry Perl 5.12.3, CPAN, make file problems (dmake.exe), DFSEP and backslash "\" by Eliya (Vicar) on Feb 17, 2012 at 23:39 UTC


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