Mon Jun 09 09:10:00 2014: Request 96288 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by RSCHUPP
Queue: PAR-Packer
Subject: PAR::Packer unable to build under Win32/ActivePerl v5.14.2
Broken in: 1.018
Severity: (no value)
Owner: RSCHUPP
Requestors: [email protected]
Status: open
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96288 >
On 2014-06-06 15:53:43, [email protected] wrote:
> I received an error building PAR::Packer under ActivePerl v5.14.2 on
> Windows 7 (64-bit). The specific error was because MakeMaker would fail on
> the "use File::Glob ':bsd_glob';" for this version of Perl.
>
> Correct me if I'm mistaken, but it appears that, with the way File::Glob is
> being used, this can be changed to just "use File::Glob;" and where glob()
> is used in find_dll() can be changed to bsd_glob() (it doesn't look like it
You're absolutely right: "use File::Glob ':bsd_glob'" has the side effect of
mapping CORE::glob to File::Glob::bsd_glob and some versions of MakeMaker
seem to rely on the legacy behaviour of CORE::glob.
I've committed your suggestion, will be in the next release of PAR::Packer.
Thank, Roderich