Re^2: create-modulino.pl appears in a CPAN module Makefile.PL, and nukes the install retval

[Intrepid]

ikegami wisely surmised:

This is a sh command, but it's being passed to cmd to an unsurprising result.

Having slept on it, I have come to the conclusion that what you say is correct.

This module's installer isn't portable.

Yes–no, it's not portable. I thought I had the kinks worked out of my setup and that win32 perl would handle sh commands but obviously I have not. I'll have to decide how much effort to put into solving that, since I've watched dozens of successful installs from CPAN recently, and this is just one exceptional failure.

    — Soren

Sep 25, 2025 at 16:34 UTC

[ysth]

If the normal behavior with strawberry is that make commands use cmd, not sh, there may be already fixed distros that rely on that (checking os in Makefile.PL). Futzing your setup to make this one work would then break those; better to just see it as a bug in this distro and change nothing in your setup.

[ikegami]

To my knowledge, there's no port of sh available for Windows.

(There are Cywgin and MSYS binaries, but those run inside of an emulation of unix.)

One of the motivations for Module::Build was to end the reliance on external OS-specific tools. ExtUtils::MakeMaker relies on make and therefore on external tools or Perl re-implementations of them.

[soonix]

Git for Windows (referenced from https://git-scm.com/downloads/win) provides a BASH emulation, used to run Git from the command line. Some of the external commands, like ls, vi, nano and perl (currently v5.38.2), are provided, others, like ed, mkfs 😉, or gcc, aren't, but you can call Windows programs just like from CMD.EXE. This is, of course, also an emulation, but one that you possibly might have installed anyway.