Test::Pod/Test::Pod::Coverage failing strangely (from Module::Starter::PBP)

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

I've got a package that I've started using Module::Starter (and Module::Starter::PBP). When I try to run make test on it (no real code in place yet), the pod-coverage and pod tests fail as follows:

t/pod-coverage......Can't open perl script ""-I/Users/dhosek/dev/LA Lo
+cal Food/LALF-Market/blib/lib"": No such file or directory
t/pod-coverage...... Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
 No subtests run 
t/pod...............Can't open perl script ""-I/Users/dhosek/dev/LA Lo
+cal Food/LALF-Market/blib/lib"": No such file or directory
t/pod............... Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
 No subtests run
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Any ideas what's going on here?

(As an aside, the templates generated by the default settings from Module::Starter::PBP don't work: They're missing my before the setting of $version)

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Re: Test::Pod/Test::Pod::Coverage failing strangely (from Module::Starter::PBP) by moritz (Cardinal) on Jan 26, 2008 at 20:36 UTC
It seems that you have whitespaces in your working directory. Could you try the same thing in a directory that doesn't contain whitespaces? If it works then, you know what the problem is, and can write a good bug report ;-) Did you modify anything at all in the generated files?	[reply]
Re^2: Test::Pod/Test::Pod::Coverage failing strangely (from Module::Starter::PBP) by Cuhulain (Beadle) on Feb 07, 2010 at 23:54 UTC
The manual page for module-starter recommends defining environment variable MODULE_STARTER_DIR. So, even though my $HOME is a pathname embedding spaces (typical for a MSWin32 PC), in My Computer, I define MODULE_STARTER_DIR to value c:\perldev\.module-starter. Then Module::starter::PBP works pretty well as planned. The other problem mentioned by dhosek, about our $VERSION is a known fault reported to CPAN in Feb 2007 at `https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=25007`. Best wishes.	[reply] [d/l]