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Description of problem:
The ExtUtils::MakeMaker as found in RHEL3's perl-5.8.0-89.10 fails
to form a valid Makefile for Digest::MD5 version 2.33.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
perl-5.8.0-89.10

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. perl -MCPAN -e 'install Digest::MD5;'
2.
3.
  

Actual Results:  CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /usr/local/src/cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Sun, 01 May 2005 19:03:17 GMT
Running install for module Digest::MD5
Running make for G/GA/GAAS/Digest-MD5-2.33.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Checksum for /usr/local/src/cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/Digest-MD5-2.33.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /usr/local/src/cpan/build for sizes
Digest-MD5-2.33/
Digest-MD5-2.33/t/
Digest-MD5-2.33/t/md5-aaa.t
Digest-MD5-2.33/t/clone.t
Digest-MD5-2.33/t/badfile.t
Digest-MD5-2.33/t/utf8.t
Digest-MD5-2.33/t/bits.t
Digest-MD5-2.33/t/align.t
Digest-MD5-2.33/t/files.t
Digest-MD5-2.33/README
Digest-MD5-2.33/MANIFEST
Digest-MD5-2.33/hints/
Digest-MD5-2.33/hints/MacOS.pl
Digest-MD5-2.33/hints/irix_6.pl
Digest-MD5-2.33/hints/dec_osf.pl
Digest-MD5-2.33/Changes
Digest-MD5-2.33/Makefile.PL
Digest-MD5-2.33/MD5.xs
Digest-MD5-2.33/typemap
Digest-MD5-2.33/MD5.pm
Digest-MD5-2.33/rfc1321.txt
Removing previously used /usr/local/src/cpan/build/Digest-MD5-2.33

  CPAN.pm: Going to build G/GA/GAAS/Digest-MD5-2.33.tar.gz

Perl's config says that U32 access must be aligned.
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Digest::MD5
Makefile:85: *** missing separator.  Stop.
  /usr/bin/make  -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible


Expected Results:  A valid Makefile for Digest::MD5 version 2.33 is formed and the Perl module builds.

Additional info:

A quick glance at the Makefile produced by MakeMaker shows that it is invalid.
For example:

# cd /usr/local/cpan/build/Digest-MD5-2.33
# perl Makefile.PL
Perl's config says that U32 access must be aligned.
Writing Makefile for Digest::MD5
# make
Makefile:85: *** missing separator.  Stop.

Looking at the Makefile starting at line 75, we see malformed Make lines:

installvendorhtml3=''
installvendorlib='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.
INSTALLVENDORLIB = ib/perl5'
installusrbinperl='def
INSTALLARCHLIB = /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
INSTALLSITEARCH = /usr/lib/
INSTALLVENDORARCH = /usr/
INSTALLBIN = /usr/bin'
installhtml1dir=''
installhtml3dir=''
installman1
INSTALLSITEBIN = /usr
INSTALLVENDORBIN = /usr/bin'
installvendorhtml1=''
installvendorhtml3=''
installvendorlib='/u
INSTALLSCRIPT = /usr/bin
PERL_LIB = /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
PERL_ARCHLIB = /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
SITELIBEXP = '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl'
sit
SITEARCHEXP = /usr/lib/pe
LIBPERL_A = libperl.a'
libc='
FIRST_MAKEFILE = Makefile
MAKE_APERL_FILE = Makefile.aperl
PERLMAINCC = $(CC)
PERL_INC = /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE
PERL = /usr/bin/perl

NOTE: RHEL3 is shipping with MakeMaker version 6.03.  It appears that
      version 6.12 can correctly build the Makefile under OS X.  So I
      suspect there is an issue with the older RHEL3 MakeMaker.

Please consider sending out a new RHEL3 perl RPM with a more up to date
ExtUtils::MakeMaker so that we can build CPAN modules.