on Win32: nmake par fails

[BobH]

I must be doing something wrong -- help me out please. Trying to build 
PAR-Packer-0.991 on Win32. 

nmake par

fails with this error:

     Cannot copy PAR-Packer-0.991-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.10.0.par: Bad file 
descriptor at C:/Perl/site/lib/PAR/Dist.pm line 275.

The offending line in makefile was:

PAR-Packer-0.991-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.10.0.par: all test
        $(NOECHO) $(PERL) "-Minc::Module::Install" -e 
"make_par(q(PAR-Packer-0.991-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.10.0.par))"

PAR::Dist , at line 271, says:

    if ($dist and $file ne $dist) {
        if ( File::Copy::copy($file, $dist) ) {
          unlink $file;
        } else {
          die "Cannot copy $file: $!";
        }


executing with the debugger, I find the following values:

$file = 'PAR-Packer-0.991-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.10.0.par'

$dist =  'C:\\SRC\\PAR 
stuf\\PAR-Packer-0.991\\PAR-Packer-0.991-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.10.0.par'

and the cwd is C:\SRC\PAR stuf\PAR-Packer-0.991

thus the File::Copy::copy is trying to copy a file onto itself. Thus the error.

Bob

for reference, perl -v output:

This is perl, v5.10.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 5 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2007, Larry Wall

Binary build 1004 [287188] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveState.com
Built Sep  3 2008 13:16:37