Errors from Build.PL

[BillKSmith]

I am reading the O'Reilly book "Intermediate Perl" and I am not able to complete the exercises for chapter 12 "Creating Your Own Perl Distribution". I am using ActiveState Perl v5.16.1 on Windows XP. In my early attempts, I was required to install several packages with ppm. (Unforunately, I did not keep records) All the instalations went smoothly and eliminated the messages that motivated them. The remaining errors do not appear to be due to missing modules.

C:\Documents and Settings\bill\Perl\ip\chap_12>module-starter --mb --m
+odule=Anim
al --author="Gilligan" --email=[e-mail] --verbose
Created Animal
Created Animal\lib
Created Animal\lib\Animal.pm
Created Animal\t
Created Animal\t\pod-coverage.t
Created Animal\t\pod.t
Created Animal\t\manifest.t
Created Animal\t\boilerplate.t
Created Animal\t\00-load.t
Created Animal\Build.PL
Created Animal\Changes
Created Animal\README
Added to MANIFEST: Build.PL
Added to MANIFEST: Changes
Added to MANIFEST: lib/Animal.pm
Added to MANIFEST: MANIFEST
Added to MANIFEST: README
Added to MANIFEST: t/00-load.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/boilerplate.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/manifest.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/pod-coverage.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/pod.t
Created Animal\MANIFEST
Created starter directories and files

C:\Documents and Settings\bill\Perl\ip\chap_12>

This much runs without error and appears to create all required files.

C:\Documents and Settings\bill\Perl\ip\chap_12\Animal>perl Build.PL
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
Could not get valid metadata. Error is: Invalid metadata structure. Er
+rors: Lice
nse 'Artistic_2_0' is invalid (license) [Validation: 1.4]
 at C:/Perl/lib/Module/Build/Base.pm line 4564.

Could not create MYMETA files
Creating new 'Build' script for 'Animal' version '0.01'

C:\Documents and Settings\bill\Perl\ip\chap_12\Animal>

Please explain this message and how to fix it. Setting a --license for module-starter changes the message slightly, but does not really help.

[Leon Timmermans]

This is a result of this bug. Upgrading Module::Build and Software::License should fix it.

[fishmonger]

I have not used Module::Starter so I just installed it to test your issue and I had the same problem

The solution is to install Software::License then do the build.

I found that answer here om PM. Module::Build - could not create MYMETA files

Update: I should note that changing 'Artistic_2_0' to 'Artistic_2' as first suggested in that thread did not work for me, but installing the Software::License module did resolve that error.

[BillKSmith]

Thanks, it is now working perfectly. I should have thought to do FishMonger's search myself.