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List:       perl-module-build
Subject:    Re: "Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too long" on RHEL 4.4
From:       Ken Williams <ken () mathforum ! org>
Date:       2006-12-16 3:55:08
Message-ID: DA4A4955-9BDD-4E10-B5CD-085F10168C47 () mathforum ! org
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On Dec 15, 2006, at 5:29 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote:

> # from Julian Mehnle
> # on Friday 15 December 2006 02:51 pm:
>
>> I'm in the unlucky position where a user of my Mail::SPF distro is
>> expe- riencing a "Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too long"
>> error with M::B 0.2805 on RHEL 4.4 (see the enclosed message) and I
>> cannot help debugging it myself because I neither have RHEL nor
>> understand M::B well enough to analyze the problem.
>
> I don't think we have yet solved this.  IIRC, the current state is  
> that
> we don't have a workaround which will also allow the test suite to
> pass.

I think all the tests do pass now, actually.  Not that we have the  
ideal solution, though.  What we do now is filter out non-existent  
@INC entries, and in the given test (in t/ext.t) we explicitly create  
the directory we're adding to @INC so it won't be filtered out.

  -Ken

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