Hi

I have been having an interesting problem with perl Makefile.PL and make

I am using perlmonk.org for some cross platform module testing as it runs FreeBSD 4.4. When I run perl Makefile.PL the Makefile is given a timestamp 6 minutes in the past which leads to the following error: 

bash-2.05$ perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/LIB

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Blah::Simple

bash-2.05$ make

Makefile out-of-date with respect to Makefile.PL
Cleaning current config before rebuilding Makefile...
make -f Makefile.old clean > /dev/null 2>&1 || /bin/sh -c true
/usr/bin/perl "-I/usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach" "-I/usr/libdata/perl/
+5.00503" Makefile.PL "LIB=/home/tachyon/LIB"
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for CGI::Simple
==> Your Makefile has been rebuilt. <==
==> Please rerun the make command.  <==
false
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/tachyon/Blah/Simple.

bash-2.05$ make

[more of the same error]

bash-2.05$ ls -al

total 178
drwxr-xr-x  6 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 08:29 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 02:12 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon     163 Nov 18 08:35 Changes
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon     400 Nov 18 08:35 MANIFEST
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon   17018 Nov 18 08:29 Makefile      <---
+-- Huh, 6 minutes ago?
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon     307 Nov 18 08:35 Makefile.PL   <---
+-- Should be after this
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon    6828 Nov 18 08:35 README
drwxr-xr-x  2 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 02:12 Simple
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon  118167 Nov 18 08:35 Simple.pm
drwxr-xr-x  2 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 02:12 html
drwxr-xr-x  2 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 02:12 misc
drwxr-xr-x  3 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 02:12 t

[download]

As you can see the timestamp for the Makefile is incorrect with respect to the Makefile.PL. Apparently this chicken was born 6 minutes before its egg so make complains.

So..... 7 minutes later 

bash-2.05$ perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/LIB

Writing Makefile for Blah::Simple

bash-2.05$ ls -al

total 161
drwxr-xr-x  6 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 08:36 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 02:12 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon     163 Nov 18 08:35 Changes
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon     400 Nov 18 08:35 MANIFEST
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon   17018 Nov 18 08:36 Makefile      <---
+-- Now 1 minute past
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon     307 Nov 18 08:35 Makefile.PL   <---
+--
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon    6828 Nov 18 08:35 README
drwxr-xr-x  2 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 02:12 Simple
-rw-r--r--  1 tachyon  tachyon  118167 Nov 18 08:35 Simple.pm
drwxr-xr-x  2 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 02:12 html
drwxr-xr-x  2 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 02:12 misc
drwxr-xr-x  3 tachyon  tachyon     512 Nov 18 02:12 t

bash-2.05$ make

mkdir blib
mkdir blib/lib
[now we are cooking...]

[download]

So that's a workaround but why is the timestamp off 6 minutes? Any suggestions about how to get a quicker workaround?

cheers

tachyon

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