Re: [Module::Build] win32 install problem

[Randy W. S. <ml...@th...>]

Ken Williams wrote:
> 
> On May 16, 2006, at 11:12 PM, Randy W. Sims wrote:
> 
>> Ben Lavender wrote:
>>> The supplied patch gets me to perl Build test, which fails at this 
>>> point:
>>> t\runthrough......ok 13/28Use of uninitialized value in pattern match 
>>> (m//) at c
>>> :/work/Perl/lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm line 72.
>>> Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at 
>>> c:/work/Perl/lib/File/Spec/
>>> Win32.pm line 72.
>>> Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at 
>>> c:/work/Perl/lib/File/Spec/
>>> Win32.pm line 140.
>>> t\runthrough......ok 19/28
>>> t\runthrough......NOK 20#   Failed test in t\runthrough.t at line 151.
>>> #          got: 'Can't locate object method "create_archive" via 
>>> package "Archiv
>>> e::Tar" (perhaps you forgot to load "Archive::Tar"?) at 
>>> C:\work\mbtest\Module-Bu
>>> ild-0.28\blib\lib/Module/Build/Base.pm line 3436.
>>> # '
>>> #     expected: ''
>>> t\runthrough......ok 28/28# Looks like you failed 1 test of 28.
>>
>> The patch works because it throws away the volume part, but the volume 
>> shouldn't be there at all.
> 
> Yeah, it shouldn't, but there it is. =)  Older versions of File::Spec 
> include it, and even though it's not strictly incorrect to have a drive 
> letter on a relative path, if we don't jump through the byzantine 
> File::Spec hoops correctly we'll screw things up.
> 
> Newer versions of File::Spec don't include the drive letter in this 
> situation - there are some regression tests in File::Spec now to ensure 
> that.

File::Spec 0.84 seems to work ok. I'd recommend bumping the prereq. 
Otherwise, the attached patch allows it to work with 0.82.

Randy.