On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:24:21PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > 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.
> 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. No objections from me. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
