PaulHowarth/Blog/2010-05-24

Monday 24th May 2010

Local Packages

Updated libidn to 1.19
- Fix typos in docs
- Add PDF version of API reference manual
- Update gnulib files
- Use valgrind -q in build to reduce verbosity
Updated perl-HTTP-SimpleLinkChecker to 1.16 (fix 403 status test - CPAN RT#57584), dropping my patch for that issue, which is no longer needed
Updated perl-YAML-Syck to 1.08:
- POD link to JSON::XS from JSON::Syck
- Add warning in YAML::Syck pod that the module is abandonware
- Strings starting with : are now always quoted
- Upgrade from Module::Install 0.68 to 0.97
- Bump included Test::More dependency
- Remove included inc/attributes.pm dependency
- Add homepage, bugtracker, and repository metadata to META.yml
- Bump perl dependency from 5.00307 to 5.006
This build failed for distributions with perl < 5.10.0, like this:

Can't locate object method "again" via package "FindBin" at inc/Module/Install.pm line 233.

The again method was added to FindBin in perl 5.9.1 so I'm surprised that this isn't causing more widespread problems for users of Module::Install (the cpantesters results suggest that Module::Install itself passes its test suite on earlier perl versions, which is a bit strange). The following patch worked around the issue:

The FindBin->again method requires perl 5.9.1 onwards

--- YAML-Syck-1.08/inc/Module/Install.pm        2010-05-23 18:08:42.000000000 +0100
+++ YAML-Syck-1.08/inc/Module/Install.pm        2010-05-24 10:31:18.841124078 +0100
@@ -231,7 +231,8 @@
 sub new {
        my ($class, %args) = @_;
 
-       FindBin->again;
+       delete $INC{'FindBin.pm'};
+       require FindBin;
 
        # ignore the prefix on extension modules built from top level.
        my $base_path = Cwd::abs_path($FindBin::Bin);

Fedora Project

Built perl-Class-ErrorHandler, perl-Convert-PEM, and perl-Crypt-DES_EDE3 for EPEL-6