Re: dh-make-perl can't find Makefile.PL though it exists

[Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah@jeremiahfoster.com>]

On Sep 5, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:46:34PM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> > Is this a bug?
>
> I would argue it is not. The Makefile.PL of XML::XPathEngine
> is just evil... It contains this code:
>
> unless( `$^X -n -e'print if( m{license\\s*:\\s*perl})' Makefile`)
>   { system $^X . q{ -p -i -e's{^((.*)distribution_type:module(.*))} 
> {$1\n$2license: perl$3}m' Makefile}; }
Yeah, I saw that. I have to agree with you, this is a strange way to  
declare a license.

> I guess that the module in question (Module::Depends::Intrusive) tries
> to load the Makefile.PL without actually creating Makefile which leads
> the code quoted above to fail which leads to the error you see.
>
> You can fix that by either adding 1; at the end of Makefile.PL or just
> uncommenting the failing code. If you run dh-make-perl again after  
> doing
> that it will work just fine.

Right you are. It built a deb. Now to run lintian on it. :)

	Jeremiah