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Bug 88341

Summary: CPAN compile results in bogus Makefile
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: John Simpson <jms1>
Component: perlAssignee: Chip Turner <cturner>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description John Simpson 2003-04-09 04:36:51 UTC 
Description of problem:
Trying to compile certain CPAN modules (so far CDB_File and updated CPAN) from
source generates an invalid Makefile, containing random four-line chunks of
Config.pm instead of single values.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
perl-5.8.0-88

How reproducible:
try to build CPAN CDB_File module

Steps to Reproduce:
1. wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSERGEANT/CDB_File-0.93.tar.gz
2. tar xvzf CDB_File-0.93.tar.gz
3. cd CDB_File-0.93
4. perl Makefile.PL
5. make
    
Actual results:
Makefile:82: *** missing separator.  Stop.

Expected results:
module builds correctly

Additional info:
same thing happened under the 8.1 beta, but module builds correctly under 7.3
and 8.0.
Comment 1 John Simpson 2003-04-09 04:39:25 UTC 
Created attachment 91026 [details]
Makefile generated by "perl Makefile.pl"
Comment 2 John Simpson 2003-04-09 05:51:43 UTC 
Found bug #84268, tried with LANG=C and with LANG totally unset. In both cases
it builds a valid makefile, and "make" works, but "make test" comes back with
errors. I am working with the module's author for a fix.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84268 ***
Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:52:34 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.