[gentoo-dev] g-cpan.pl doesn't appear to be working

[Alan <alan@ufies.org>]

I recently submitted a perl module ebuild to bugzilla for
Finance::YahooQuote and was informed that portage can already
dynamically create ebuilds for perl modules via g-cpan.pl.  *Very cool*.

However, when I ran it, it appears to want to install perl itself from
cpan!

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phoenix alan # g-cpan.pl Finance::YahooQuote
mkdir /tmp/perl-modules_3528
mkdir /tmp/perl-modules_3528/dev-perl
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Mon, 27 Jan 2003 07:49:14 GMT
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*  Need to create ebuild for 'Finance::YahooQuote': finance
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Running make for E/ED/EDD/finance-yahooquote_0.18.tar.gz
Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/E/ED/EDD/finance-yahooquote_0.18.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /root/.cpan/build for sizes
Finance-YahooQuote-0.18/
[snip list of files]
Finance-YahooQuote-0.18/t/02simple.t
Removing previously used /root/.cpan/build/Finance-YahooQuote-0.18

  CPAN.pm: Going to build E/ED/EDD/finance-yahooquote_0.18.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Warning: prerequisite HTML::Parser 2.2 not found.
Writing Makefile for Finance::YahooQuote
---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during [E/ED/EDD/finance-yahooquote_0.18.tar.gz] -----
    HTML::Parser
  Ignoring dependencies on modules HTML::Parser
cp YahooQuote.pm blib/lib/Finance/YahooQuote.pm
cp yahooquote blib/script/yahooquote
/usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::MY" -e "MY->fixin(shift)" blib/script/yahooquote
Manifying blib/man1/yahooquote.1
Manifying blib/man3/Finance::YahooQuote.3pm
  /usr/bin/make -j2 -- OK
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*  Ebuild already exists for 'LWP::UserAgent': libwww-perl
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*  Need to create ebuild for 'Text::ParseWords': perl
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Running make for J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz

The most recent version "3.21" of the module "Text::ParseWords"
comes with the current version of perl (5.8.0).
I'll build that only if you ask for something like
    force install Text::ParseWords
or
    install J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz
Use of uninitialized value in open at /usr/bin/g-cpan.pl line 249.
Can't open 'J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz': No such file or directory at /usr/bin/g-cpan.pl line 249.
phoenix alan # 
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It seems that it is creating a list of dependancies and because one is 
installed with perl, it tries to go and build that. 

The ebuild that I created worked fine with no dependancies btw, though on
another machine (debian) installing from CPAN it wanted Spreadsheet::ParseExcel 
and IO::Scalar, which I guess are installed already.

Any ideas?  

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Alan <alan@ufies.org> - http://arcterex.net
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