CPAN testers and META.yml

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

Greetings Monks!

I'm trying to figure out this failure from cpantesters.org: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/2cb2c1d6-819f-11e8-bf8d-c559fbf5efc5

Can't locate File/Slurp.pm in @INC (you may need to install the File::Slurp module)

But my Makefile.PL (based on Module::Install) says:

test_requires(
  'Test::Compile' => 0,
  'File::Slurp' => 0,
  'Test::More' => 0,
  'File::Find' => 0,
  'File::Spec::Functions' => 0,
  'Cwd' => 0,
);
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According to the documentation, test_requires is currently an alias for build_requires. Sure enough, in my META.yml I see:

build_requires:
  Cwd: 0
  ExtUtils::MakeMaker: 6.36
  File::Find: 0
  File::Slurp: 0
  File::Spec::Functions: 0
  Test::Compile: 0
  Test::More: 0
  UNIVERSAL::require: 0
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Does anyone know why CPAN testers seems to be ignoring this requirement? Should I specify an explicit version number?

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Re: CPAN testers and META.yml by tinita (Parson) on Jul 08, 2018 at 21:35 UTC
You can see that the test you linked to is for 5.22.3, but the error message shows that 5.26.1 is called: `/usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.26.1` So at some point your code is calling `/usr/bin/perl`, probably by invoking a script directly instead of via `$^X`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: CPAN testers and META.yml by tobyink (Canon) on Jul 09, 2018 at 08:59 UTC
Well spotted. I think it might be the shebang line in the file "yagg". toby döt ink	[reply]
Re: CPAN testers and META.yml by tobyink (Canon) on Jul 08, 2018 at 16:11 UTC
The bottom of the report includes the following: `Module Need Have --------------------- ----- -------- Cwd 0 3.74 ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.36 7.35_03 File::Find 0 1.29 File::Slurp 0 9999.19 File::Spec::Functions 0 3.74 Test::Compile 0 v1.3.0 Test::More 0 1.302137 UNIVERSAL::require 0 0.18 URI::Escape 0 3.31` [download] So they do have File::Slurp installed. Unless you're seeing this same error with a lot of testers, it might have just been a one-off problem on that particular person's computer, like a corrupt hard drive or something. toby döt ink	[reply] [d/l]