Greetings.

I am building 5.18.1. The initial build is fine. Then I do a step where I run cpanp -o, parse for out of date modules, filter some out and add some others for local political reasons and then start doing cpan -i --allow_build_interactivity=0 module.... Initially, no issues. However, once I update CPANPLUS to 0.9114 and CPANPLUS::Dist::Build to 0.74, I get the message

[ERROR]  is not a proper distribution name!

each time cpanp is started. It doesn't cause any problems, but I wonder, before I go and report a bug, has anyone else seen this?

TIA, Matt

UPDATE: It was the --allow_build_interactivity=0 flag that was the problem. It is an illegal flag to cpanp. It IS, however, a Config item you can set for cpanp.

In reply to cpanp - [ERROR] is not a proper distribution name! by mpersico

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