I'm currently installing a bunch of modules on a fresh Perl 5.8.8 (under Win XP). Some of them (Catalyst, YAML) crash while creating the Makefile.

The modules use Module::Install in the Makefile.pl. I'm not sure where to start looking. Is this a bug in Module::Install? 
C:\Perl\cpan\build\YAML-0.58>perl Makefile.PL
Undefined subroutine &ActivePerl::Config::find_prog called at C:/Perl/
+site/lib/ActivePerl/Config.pm line 70.
Compilation failed in require at C:/Perl/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lin
+e 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Perl/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+ line 7.
Compilation failed in require at inc/Module/Install/Can.pm - /Users/in
+gy/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/Module/Install/Can.pm line 8.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at inc/Module/Install/Can.pm - /User
+s/ingy/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/Module/Install/Can.pm line 8.
Compilation failed in require at /Users/ingy/src/ingy/YAML/inc/Module/
+Install.pm - /Users/ingy/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/Module/Insta
+ll.pm line 180.
Global symbol "$Verbose" requires explicit package name at C:/Perl/lib
+/ExtUtils/MM_Any.pm line 1267.
Global symbol "$Verbose" requires explicit package name at C:/Perl/lib
+/ExtUtils/MM_Any.pm line 1277.
Compilation failed in require at C:/Perl/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm line 
+25.
Compilation failed in require at inc/Module/Install/Metadata.pm - /Use
+rs/ingy/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/Module/Install/Metadata.pm li
+ne 197.

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Update:
I have traced the problem a little bit further. In ActivePerl::Config the function find_prog gets called in various places. find_prog is correctly imported from ActiveState::Path: 
use ActiveState::Path qw(find_prog realpath);

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and correctly exported in ActiveState::Path: 
 
use base 'Exporter';
our @EXPORT_OK = qw(path_list find_prog is_abs_path abs_path join_path
+ rel_path unsymlinked realpath);

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Nonetheless find_prog cannot be found. I have replaced all the calls to find_prog with calls to ActiveState::Path::find_prog and then it works. So it looks as if the Export does not work correctly. The question remains:

Why?


holli, /regexed monk/

In reply to Trouble installing a module that uses Module::Install on Active Perl 5.8.8 by holli

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