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Strawberry Perl 5.24 Makefile.PL Builds Fail #1

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theory opened this issue Jan 15, 2019 · 0 comments
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Strawberry Perl 5.24 Makefile.PL Builds Fail #1

theory opened this issue Jan 15, 2019 · 0 comments

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theory commented Jan 15, 2019 •
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In 5.26, Strawberry Perl switched from dmake to gmake, and all works well. On 5.24, however, installation of Makefile.PL-based projects does not work. In theory, one can simply use dmake instead of gmake:

     - <<: *strawberry
      env: PERL_VERSION=5.24.4.1
      script:
        - perl Makefile.PL
        - dmake
        - dmake test

However, it won't even get this far if dependencies are Makefile.PL-based, as the CPAN::Test::Dummy::Perl5::Make module required this this project is, because the dependency installer (here modified to run with -v):

      install:
        - cpanm -v --notest --installdeps .

Fails, too, with this error:

-MExtUtils::Command: C:Strawberryperlbinperl.exe: command not found
dmake.exe:  Error code 255, while making 'blib\lib\CPAN\Test\Dummy\Perl5\.exists'

@bingos says, "usually that means there is some other perl in the environment interferring. A UNIXy type perl, say a cygwin type perl." And indeed, the Travis CI Windows environment's Chocolatey (or Git-Bash?) environment provides /bin/perl, which is in the path. So maybe it needs to be removed from the path?
theory added a commit that referenced this issue Jan 15, 2019
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Use a YAML alias to reduce redundancy.
ea20f30 
Instead of repeating the entire "Strawberry" stage multiple times, once fore
each Perl, make a YAML alias to the first instance, and then simply include
the alias and add the PER_VERSION environment variable for subsequent
instances of the stage. A little opaque to those unfamiliar with the YAML
anchor/alias feature (as I was), but definitely cuts down on clutter.

To better demonstrate multiple uses, add a third Strawberry stage that tests a
third version of Perl. Use a variant of 5.26 again, because 5.24 has issues
(see #1 for details).

While at it, switch from URI::db to CPAN::Test::Dummy::Perl5::Make as the
sample dependency, because it is a no-op with no dependencies of its own, so
it keeps things simpler.
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