Re: how to re-run Makefile.PL under CPAN?

[jettero]

Well, you can always look to get an os-shell in the package directory. I use that from time to time. Sometimes you can just exit the cpan-shell and come back in too, it depends. look is probably what you want.

[dk]

I'm not really sure what do you mean. Is look the look(1), "display lines beginning with a given string" one ?

When I myself am installing modules, surely I can myself run Makefile.PL as much as I want, but I'm talking about automated builds, when 3rd person is installing module X and getting it installed wrong, or CPAN testers reporting failures.

[adrianh]

I'm not really sure what do you mean. Is look the look(1), "display lines beginning with a given string" one ?

Within the CPAN shell "look" will extract the archive and give you a shell prompt. For example:

cpan> look Test::Exception
Running look for module Test::Exception

Trying to open a subshell in the build directory...
Working directory is /Users/adrianh/.cpan/build/Test-Exception-0.25
(1/501) ~/.cpan/build/Test-Exception-0.25 mitchum% ls
Build.PL        Changes         MANIFEST        META.yml        Makefi
+le.PL     README          lib             t