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• config.h timestamp in future breaks Makefile.PL (Score:1)

  by dagolden (6584) on 2007.12.19 13:07 (#59559) Journal

  For some reason, all your file timestamps are about a day in the future and are preserved on install. (Yay! Aren't timezones fun!) That means that Makefile.PL complains:

  Makefile out-of-date with respect to C:\strawberry\perl\lib\Config.pm C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE\config.h

  This is not a problem for Build.PL and since you've configured CPAN.pm to prefer Build.PL, this only affects distributions that only have Makefile.PL. That includes several of the dependencies of CPAN::Reporter, including your own Config::Tiny.

  Presumably, if I wait until tomorrow the problem will go away, but I think this needs a fix or else you'll frustrate anyone who tries out a new Strawberry Perl right after you release it if they happen to be on the other side of the international date line.

  (I suppose you could build a new release and then wait a day to release it, but what's the fun in that?!?)

  -- dagolden

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  • Re: (Score:1)

    by dagolden (6584)

    Quick fix in the meantime -- from the C:\strawberry directory:

    > perl -MFile::Find -e "find sub { utime undef, undef, $_ }, q{.}"

    -- dagolden
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Mr. Muskrat (4572)

    That explains the messages about the Makefile being rebuilt and needing to rerun dmake.