Puzzling cpan-testers UNKNOWN report for Math-GMPz-0.49 on OpenBSD

syphilis has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: Puzzling cpan-testers UNKNOWN report for Math-GMPz-0.49 on OpenBSD by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 10, 2021 at 12:01 UTC
On first glance, it seems that this smoker is using Make as their `make` tool. Maybe the generated Makefile is incompatible with what the `Make.pm` uses? Maybe you can replicate the problem locally by installing Make and redirecting `make` to the `make` tool supplied by Make...	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Puzzling cpan-testers UNKNOWN report for Math-GMPz-0.49 on OpenBSD by syphilis (Archbishop) on Feb 11, 2021 at 01:14 UTC
On first glance, it seems that this smoker is using Make as their make tool. I had no idea that such a make tool even existed ... and it comes as a further surprise that someone would opt to use it. These days, most CPAN distros place all of the '.pm' files under a top level 'lib' directory, but not Math::GMPz. I speculated that Make.pm might be incapable of handling that older style arrangement, so I ran `cpan -i Make` and tested it. Make.pm does the job with Math-GMPz-0.49 just fine for me on MS Windows - so I'm thinking that the problem lies with the Makefile that's generated on the OpenBSD system. (I guess it could still be the file structure of the Math-GMPz source that's tripping up this OpenBSD system.) Thanks for the pointer !! Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]