Re^6: Clean smoke-test install for Inline based modules using Inline::MakeMaker

[syphilis]

Wow ... something weird going on there. If I grab http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.62.tar.gz by clicking on that link (in the browser), then gzip -d and tar xvf the file, it unwraps into a directory named 'ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.62' (as expected).

I think that's the same tarball as wget fetched for you ... so we're left to ponder what's making the difference.
Is it something that wget does ? or gunzip ? or tar ?

It's hard to believe that wget could be the culprit ... more likely something that your gunzip or tar is doing.
And if it's only EU::MM that's afflicted with this condition (and not other source tarballs from CPAN), then it's even more mysterious - and, of course, indicative of there being something unique about the way Schwern bundles up his source tarballs.

Cheers,
Rob

[BrowserUk]

I think that's the same tarball as wget fetched for you ...

It is exactly the same file as identified by the md5sum.

more likely something that your gunzip or tar is doing.

It seems to be something to do with the version of the tar used by the distribution builder that is incompatible with older versions of tar when it comes to untarring.

As I've now discovered ptar -- it successfully unpacks the very same file that gave me troubles -- and that it is installed with Perl, I'll use that in future. Indeed, I've renamed tar.exe to tar.exe.old and copied ptar.bat to tar.cmd so that if I should forget, I won't have to spend hours working out which files and directories I need to delete as I did this time.