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in thread Strawberry Perl 5.12.3, CPAN, make file problems (dmake.exe), DFSEP and backslash "\"

Thanks for the help and insight, Rob. Both you and Eliya got me learning perl make Module internals, and I even learned a new idiom. I absolutely appreciate the effort you've shown in helping me.

However, it was the thought of having to create a kludge for a freshly installed Strawberry Perl that really got me looking closely at what Anonymous was writing about cpan conf options, and that lead to a solution my neat-freak mentality preferred.

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Re^8: Strawberry Perl 5.12.3, CPAN, make file problems (dmake.exe), DFSEP and backslash "\"
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 17, 2012 at 20:03 UTC

    Well, for whatever its worth, strawberry-perl-5.12.3.0.zip does work out of the box 

    $ h2xs -b 5.5.0 -AX Titikaka
Writing Titikaka/lib/Titikaka.pm
Writing Titikaka/Makefile.PL
Writing Titikaka/README
Writing Titikaka/t/Titikaka.t
Writing Titikaka/Changes
Writing Titikaka/MANIFEST

$ cd Titikaka

$ ..\strawberry-perl-5.12.3.0\perl\bin\perl.exe Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
... Detected uninstalled Perl.  Trying to continue.
Have ..\strawb~1.0\perl\lib
Want \strawberry\perl\lib
Writing Makefile for Titikaka

$ dmake
cp lib/Titikaka.pm blib\lib\Titikaka.pm

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    However, if you set the enviromental variable make to nmake, its the same as passing Makefile.PL make=nmake 

    $ set make=nmake

$ ..\strawberry-perl-5.12.3.0\perl\bin\perl.exe  Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Titikaka
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json

$ dmake
dmake:  Error: -- `..\strawberry-perl-5.12.3.0\perl\libConfig.pm' not 
+found, and can't be made

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    So that is the only thing I think it could be, that you have make=nmake in your env for some reason , or maybe DFSEP, nothing else makes sense :)

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      I'll be damned! Not only did you nail it again, but I was so blinded by context the first time I checked this that I didn't see the obvious problem until now.

      > set | find "ake"
Make=LENOVO

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      A bug that only exists on ThinkPads! No wonder I was going nuts (relatively) alone.

      When my mind was scanning env vars before, I totally missed this because the context of the other env vars surrounding it!

      MAC=00FF6816060A
Make=LENOVO
Model=64758S4
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
OS=Windows_NT

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      Well, let my thoroughness failure be a warning to all ThinkPad users working with Strawberry Perl.

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        Had you followed my advice back then and put a couple of prints in init_MAKE(), you'd have seen it printing "LENOVO", which should've pointed you to the root cause right away...  :P

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