Re^8: Strawberry Perl 5.12.3, CPAN, make file problems (dmake.exe), DFSEP and backslash "\"

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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Re^9: Strawberry Perl 5.12.3, CPAN, make file problems (dmake.exe), DFSEP and backslash "\" by jffry (Hermit) on Feb 17, 2012 at 20:59 UTC
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` [download] 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` [download] Well, let my thoroughness failure be a warning to all ThinkPad users working with Strawberry Perl.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^10: Strawberry Perl 5.12.3, CPAN, make file problems (dmake.exe), DFSEP and backslash "\" by Eliya (Vicar) on Feb 17, 2012 at 23:39 UTC
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	[reply] [d/l]