in reply to CPAN Testers makefile problem

Could you provide a link to the makefile in question or a clue about what module it's part of? What's on line 496?

My guess is that the character encoding of the Makefile does not match the character encoding expected by make (but I don't know what either of those encodings are).

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Re^2: CPAN Testers makefile problem
by ambs (Pilgrim) on Sep 03, 2008 at 18:45 UTC

    Hi

    I asked for the makefile to a few of the testers, but couldn't get it. But now that you say it... checked the makefile generated on my system and found out the problem. What the heck. All because of the code generating META.yaml, with my name: 

    494:        $(NOECHO) $(ECHO) 'license:             ~' >> META_new.yml
495:        $(NOECHO) $(ECHO) 'author:              ' >> META_new.yml
496:        $(NOECHO) $(ECHO) '    - Alberto Simões <ambs@cpan.org>' >
+> META_new.yml
497:        $(NOECHO) $(ECHO) 'generated_by:        ExtUtils::MakeMake
+r version 6.44' >> META_new.yml
498:        $(NOECHO) $(ECHO) 'distribution_type:   module' >> META_ne
+w.yml

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    And, yes, this fails for just a few systems (mainly VMS and Solaris). Solved, in any case. I need to change my name.

    Thanks

    Alberto Simões

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      Five Makefile.PL edited. Five Changes files edited. Five .pm files edited. Five $VERSION variables bumped by 0.01. Five make dists. Five modules uploads.

      Alberto Simões

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      Its actually a bug in MakeMaker (similar bug happened before for PPM target)
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