[Bioperl-l] Minor changes to Build.PL for Windows

[Scott Cain]

Hi Sendu,

It looks like what you've done did the trick--bioperl installed on both
ActivePerl 817 and 819 using Module::Build (though I must admit I didn't
look at the tests--I just wanted `perl Build.PL` to work).  Nice work!

Scott


On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 12:39 -0500, Scott Cain wrote:
> Hi Sendu,
> 
> I won't have time to do testing on Windows until much later in the day,
> but I at least want to throw out a little more information.  In
> ActivePerl 819, DBI appears to be installed by default, but the method
> 'available_drivers' doesn't appear to be available (not implemented?
> returns something invalid when there are none? not sure at the moment).
> Anyway, as a result, when I run perl Build.PL and there are no drivers
> installed, it crashes.  I'll try to tease out what is going on later
> tonight.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 10:48 +0000, Sendu Bala wrote:
> > Sendu Bala wrote:
> > > Scott Cain wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> I just wanted to mention that I made a few minor changes to Build.PL so
> > >> that I could get `perl Build.PL` to complete successfully.  I am using
> > >> ActivePerl 819 and don't have MySQL installed (so DBD::mysql isn't
> > >> present either.  The main thing I did was to have the BioDBGFF test
> > >> subroutine quit without asking any questions if Build.PL detected that
> > >> it was running on Windows.
> > > 
> > > Is it completely impossible for it to pass under Windows? I find that 
> > > quite a shame!
> > > 
> > > I'm surprised it was necessary to make your changes, because it already 
> > > had to return true from:
> > [snip]
> > 
> > Sorry, that all made no sense because I didn't pay attention to what 
> > changes you actually made.
> > 
> > Anyway, I've re-done the BioDBGFF auto-feature testing. Can you say if 
> > being on mswin still causes a problem, or can the excludes_os 
> > restriction on line 78 of Build.PL be lifted now?
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Sendu.
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Scott Cain, Ph. D.                                         cain at cshl.edu
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