Small pb to build Tk beta10 with debian's dh-make-perl (was: CPAN Upload: N/NI/NI-S/Tk-804.025_beta10.patch.gz)

[Dominique Dumont <domi@komarr.grenoble.hp.com>]

Hello

Nick Ing-Simmons <nick@ing-simmons.net> writes:

> Pause <cpan-testers@perl.org> writes:
>>The uploaded file
>>
>>    Tk-804.025_beta10.patch.gz
>>
>>has entered CPAN as
>
> And the tar ball is on its way.

There's small but annoying permission problem with some files:

The tar ball contains:
-r--r--r-- nick/users     4977 2003-12-10 10:37:05 Tk-804.025_beta10/pTk/tk.t

After a perl Makefile.PL and make I get:
$ ll pTk/tk.t 
-r--r--r--    1 domi     domi         4977 Dec 10 10:37 pTk/tk.t

It looks like this file is touched or re-generated by make although
it's delivered with a read-only permission.

It works file with the usual build method but it fail when I use
dh-make-perl. (this tool enables me to build debian package from CPAN
module, thus I can integrate red hot CPAN modules without wrecking the
packaging system of my machine) :

$ dh-make-perl --build
 <..>
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/domi/freeware/Tk-804.025_beta10/pTk'
/usr/bin/perl mkVFunc -t x tk.h
Ignoring from tk.exc
tk.h:22:  * For C++ compilers, use extern "C"
'TK' in '#if defined(MAC_TCL) || defined(MAC_OSX_TK)' at mkVFunc line 136, <H> line 63.
'TK' in '#ifndef _TKPORT' at mkVFunc line 136, <H> line 86.
'TK' in '#ifdef TK_USE_INPUT_METHODS' at mkVFunc line 136, <H> line 818.
'TK' in '#if !defined(USE_TK_STUBS) && defined(USE_OLD_IMAGE)' at mkVFunc line 136, <H> line 1563.
'TK' in '#ifndef USE_TK_STUBS' at mkVFunc line 136, <H> line 1696.
'TK' in '#if !defined(USE_TK_STUBS) || !defined(USE_OLD_IMAGE)' at mkVFunc line 136, <H> line 1705.
TK
Cannot open tk.t:Permission denied at mkVFunc line 273.
make[2]: *** [tk.t] Error 13
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/domi/freeware/Tk-804.025_beta10/pTk'
make[1]: *** [pTk/libpTk.a] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/domi/freeware/Tk-804.025_beta10'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
Cannot create deb package

The fix is trivial:
$ chmod u+w pTk/*

Then dh-make-perl works fine.

So could you change the permission in your tarball so downstream
integration gets easier ?

Thanks


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