On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 12:02:17PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > found 293908 5.10.1-15 > thanks > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 08:51:00AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > - make 'make a prerequisite for cpan > > > - make cpan aware of the debian package system and throw a proper error > > > when make is not found > > > - pay a gremlin $50 to sit in your computer and install make if a cpan > > > package that requires make is about to be installed. > > > > > > suggested fix: > > > Make 'make' a prerequisite for cpan. > > > > As CPAN functionality is an important part of the Perl core, I'm inclined > > to add a 'Recommends: make' to the perl package. This will pull make in > > by default but allow for people to explicitly remove it if they so desire. > > Due to the protest over this in bug #596734 , I've downgraded the > recommendation to a suggestion in 5.10.1-15 so that make will not be > pulled in by default after all. > > A better fix would be to change cpan so that it gives a better error message. > I'll look at that after the Squeeze release. > > I'm reopening this bug. Sorry it didn't work out for Squeeze.
CPAN now gives a better error message: Writing Makefile for Time::HiRes Writing MYMETA.yml Now you may issue 'make'. Do not forget also 'make test'. Can't exec "/usr/bin/make": No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl/5.14/CPAN/Distribution.pm line 2078. This isn't as clear as might have been envisaged for a Debian-specific message, but I think it's good enough. If there are no objections I'll mark this one as closed. Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
