Dear esteemed Perl Monks
There is a problem with cpanp on one of our PC's. I hope you can help with locating the problem.
Until about 6 months ago, we have been running Strawberry Perl 5.14.2 on Windows XP (SP 3) and Windows 7, and been using cpanp ( = CPANPLUS) for module installations. No problems.
Then I have installed Citrus Perl 5.16.3 on all systems, and initially cpanp complained that there is no "make" in the PATH. Here is the old PATH (newlines inserted for readability):
PATH=D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\site\bin;
D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\vendor\bin;
D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\bin;
D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\mingw32\bin;
D:\MyPrograms\System\mingw32\bin;
C:\WINDOWS\system32;
C:\WINDOWS;
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;
C:\ProgramFiles\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static;
c:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared\;
D:\My Programs\Media\Imaging\ImageMagick-6.7.3-Q16;
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\;
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\I
+DE\
I have then added (on both machines), to the PATH, a reference to the '\bin' directory of the StrawberryPerl installation (which contains dmake.exe); namely D:\MyPrograms\System\StrawberryPerl\c\bin;
Here is the new PATH in full:
PATH=D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\site\bin;
D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\vendor\bin;
D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\bin;
D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\mingw32\bin;
D:\MyPrograms\System\mingw32\bin;
C:\WINDOWS\system32;
C:\WINDOWS;
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;
D:\MyPrograms\System\StrawberryPerl\c\bin;
C:\ProgramFiles\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static;
c:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared\;
D:\My Programs\Media\Imaging\ImageMagick-6.7.3-Q16;
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\;
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\I
+DE\
As a result, cpanp now runs fine on the Windows 7 machine; but on the Win XP machine, it still breaks, saying:
You do not have 'make' in your path -- 'CPANPLUS::Dist::MM' not available.
Here is an example of the the full listing (trying to install Text::CSV): (Note: cpanp has the prompt: "CPAN Terminal>"):
CPAN Terminal>installing Text::CSV (1.32)
[ERROR] You do not have 'make' in your path -- 'CPANPLUS::Dist::MM' no
+t available
Please check your config entry for 'make'
[ERROR] Format 'CPANPLUS::Dist::MM' is not available
[ERROR] Unable to create a new distribution object for 'Text::CSV' --
+cannot continue
*** Install log written to:
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\.cpanplus\install-lo
+gs\Text-CSV-1.32-1372579867.log
Error installing 'Text::CSV'
Problem installing one or more modules
*** You can view the complete error buffer by pressing 'p' ***
CPAN Terminal>q
What to do?
Interestingly, installing using CPAN does work fine with no complaints:
D:\MyPrograms\Perl>cpan Text::CSV
Reading 'D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\cpan\Metadata'
Database was generated on Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:29:03 GMT
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Reading 'D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailr
+c.txt.gz'
......................................................................
+......DONE
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Reading 'D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\cpan\sources\modules\02packa
+ges.details.txt.gz'
Database was generated on Sun, 30 Jun 2013 07:41:02 GMT
..............
New CPAN.pm version (v2.00) available.
[Currently running version is v1.9800] You might want to try
install CPAN
reload cpan
to both upgrade CPAN.pm and run the new version without leaving the
+current session.
..............................................................DONE
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Reading 'D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\cpan\sources\modules\03modli
+st.data.gz'
......................................................................
+......DONE
Writing D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\cpan\Metadata
Running install for module 'Text::CSV'
Running make for M/MA/MAKAMAKA/Text-CSV-1.32.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MAKAMAKA/Text-CSV-1.32.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MAKAMAKA/CHECKSUMS
Checksum for D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\cpan\sources\authors\id\
+M\MA\MAKAMAKA\Text-CSV-1.32.tar.gz ok
CPAN.pm: Building M/MA/MAKAMAKA/Text-CSV-1.32.tar.gz
Welcome to Text::CSV (v.1.32)
=============================
Your Text::CSV_XS version is 0.97. If you install v.0.99, Text::CSV wi
+ll work faster.
Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good
Writing Makefile for Text::CSV
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
cp lib/Text/CSV_PP.pm blib\lib\Text\CSV_PP.pm
cp lib/Text/CSV.pm blib\lib\Text\CSV.pm
MAKAMAKA/Text-CSV-1.32.tar.gz
dmake.exe -- OK
Running make test
D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM
+" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t/*.t
t/00_pod.t ........ skipped: Test::Pod 1.00 required for testing POD
t/10_base.t ....... ok
t/12_acc.t ........ ok
... etc
t/81_subclass.t ... ok
All tests successful.
Files=24, Tests=13674, 18 wallclock secs ( 1.67 usr + 0.22 sys = 1.8
+9 CPU)
Result: PASS
MAKAMAKA/Text-CSV-1.32.tar.gz
dmake.exe test -- OK
Running make install
Installing D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\site\lib\Text\CSV.pm
Installing D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\site\lib\Text\CSV_PP.pm
Appending installation info to D:\MyPrograms\System\Citrus\perl\lib/pe
+rllocal.pod
MAKAMAKA/Text-CSV-1.32.tar.gz
dmake.exe install -- OK
Note that, like I said, dmake is in the PATH: for example (in a CMD window):
D:\MyPrograms\Perl>dmake
dmake: Error: -- No target
D:\MyPrograms\Perl>
which positively shows that dmake.exe is found in the PATH.
Your help will be appreciated.
Many TIA - Helen
