[Pdx-pm] Is the ExtUtils::Installed in Perl 5.10 broken?

[Jonathan Leto]

Howdy,

Adding a quick bug to it's RT queue
(http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=ExtUtils-Install)
will benefit anyone else having this problem and perhaps get it fixed
in a future release.

Cheers,



On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Igal Koshevoy<igal at pragmaticraft.com> wrote:
> I believe that I've found the underlying issue.
>
> I use GNU Stow, a very useful tool written in Perl that provides a handy
> way of installing things into paths like /usr/local/stow/git-1.6.3.3 and
> then manages symlinks into /usr/local. It makes it easy to install
> different versions of software outside my OS's package manager and
> switch between them. For additional details about GNU Stow, please read
> <http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/127393>.
>
> My trouble was that my "/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0" hierarchy was
> empty, since this was being run on a freshly installed OS without any
> other modules installed, so Stow decided to replace it with a symlink to
> my Git's instance of this directory because Git actually had content for
> this directory. This relinking is usually a reasonable thing, but was
> the wrong thing to do in this case, but shouldn't have been fatal.
>
> Unfortunately, there's something in ExtUtils::Installed that really,
> really doesn't this sort of thing. It refused to traverse the symlinked
> directory and didn't see the .packlist files within. Once I uninstalled
> Acme::please, unstowed Git, installed Acme::please, and stowed Git, all
> was well again.
>
> If I have time, I'll try to find out what in specific is going wrong
> with ExtUtils::Installed handling of symlinked directories.
>
> Anyway, I suppose that my particular problem is resolved for now. Thanks
> to Ben, Eric and Eric for pitching in to help.
>
> -igal
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