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Tiger 'tar' an MakeMaker Don't Mix
Writing Makefile for Email::FolderType::Net
MAKE failed! - No such file or directory in
CPANPLUS::Internals::Make::_make at Tue May 3 22:18:56 2005 at
/.../CPANPLUS/Internals/Make.pm line 462
Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) distributes a tar that is metadata-aware. That means that when you use tar to package up your Perl module distribution on Tiger and any of your files have metadata associated with them, that metadata is included in your distribution.
For example, TextWrangler keeps metadata about files. When I edited my
Makefile.PL with TextWrangler attributes were stored about my file. When
I ran 'make dist' those attributes were added to the archive in the form
of '._' files. Including
That's a problem because, for whatever reason, MakeMaker tries to run
I tried to look for ways to shut off this "feature" of the Tiger tar but
nothing is obvious. So I build gnu tar from source and stuffed it
in
Be careful when packaging your Perl modules on Tiger.
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