Re^5: create-modulino.pl appears in a CPAN module Makefile.PL, and nukes the install retval

From pryrt:

When I look at an example from the testers, like this one, I do notice that it says "Output from 'C:\Strawberry\c\bin\gmake.exe test':" -- that is, I don't think that the automated testers necessarily do the gmake install -- they might just do the gmake test ... in which case, they wouldn't see the gmake install failure, and thus wouldn't report that failure.

I will just echo that this is a fine job of investigating, good clear thinking and asking the right questions. I didn't occur to me that testers don't send in data on the results of (g)make install, so I was left puzzling about what was uniquely wrong with my setup.

One question now remained for me: where does create-modulino.pl come from? In other words, we've seen that the postamble shell code won't work on a MSWin box, but how does it work on Linux/Unix? So, I tried it out, and it's b0rken on Linux too, because create-modulino.pl doesn't exist:

destdir=; \ test -n "$destdir" && destdir="-d $destdir"; \ create-modulino.pl -m Module::ScanDeps::FindRequires \ -a find-requires $destdir -b /usr/local/bin /bin/sh: 3: create-modulino.pl: not found make: *** Makefile:1007: install Error 127

— Soren

Sep 27, 2025 at 17:33 UTC

Comment on Re^5: create-modulino.pl appears in a CPAN module Makefile.PL, and nukes the install retval

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Re^6: create-modulino.pl appears in a CPAN module Makefile.PL, and nukes the install retval by pryrt (Abbot) on Sep 27, 2025 at 19:37 UTC
CLI::Simple is one of the prereqs for Module::ScanDeps::Static . It installs the perl script `create-modulino` (with no `.pl` extension) in the bin/ when it install, as shown here. In the previous v0.0.9 of that distro, the bin directory included both the `create-modulino` and `create-modulino.pl` -- so with an older version of the CLI::Simple, that postamble in Module::ScanDeps::Static probably would have worked in a linux environment: Yep, I installed CLI::Simple in my Ubuntu setup, and then installed Module::ScanDeps::Static, and it failed for `destdir=; \ test -n "$destdir" && destdir="-d $destdir"; \ create-modulino.pl -m Module::ScanDeps::FindRequires \ -a find-requires $destdir -b /home/pryrt/delme/bin /bin/sh: 3: create-modulino.pl: not found` [download] Whereas, if I install `CLI::Simple@0.0.9` and then `Module::ScanDeps::Static`, it passed, including the install. So it's definitely caused by the upstream repo not including the .pl version of the script in the bin installation. The funny thing is, BIGFOOT is the owner of both Module::ScanDeps::Static and CLI::Simple, so should have noticed that changing the prereq would have influenced the postamble of the other distro. reported	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^7: create-modulino.pl appears in a CPAN module Makefile.PL, and nukes the install retval by Intrepid (Curate) on Sep 28, 2025 at 01:06 UTC
We were working on parallel investigations today, pryrt ;-) I made the same discoveries you reported above. BIGFOOT messed up ... there I said it ;-). But I know well that such things happen to the best of us. For those a little curious about this `create-modulino.pl`, but not curious enough to build CLI::Simple just to look at one script, I've set up a gist with that script. —Soren	[reply]