CPAN hanging on ExtUtils::MakeMaker even if installed

[Matthew Seaman]

On 22/02/2012 15:54, Alejandro Imass wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Jaime Kikpole <jkikpole at cairodurham.org> wrote:
>> I'm attempting to upgrade Request Tracker manually.  (I know that
>> there is a port, but I'd like to preserve my data, thus I'm doing this
>> "the old fashioned way."  :) )
>>
>> When I run the "make fixdeps" step described in the directions, it
>> attempts to load ExtUtil::MakeMaker from CPAN -- even though its
>> already installed.  This wouldn't be so bad, but it actually hangs and
>> uses 100% of CPU time (according to "top") like its in an infinite
>> loop.  This is the output just before it hangs:

> Your post makes me very happy to know I wasn't crazy:
> 
> http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=918414
> 
> This is a pain in the ass and I don't know if it's a FBSD CPAN problem
> or a CPAN dependency problem but it does happen, and it's really
> annoying. I don't have a fix but a workaround. It will always hang on
> the same test, so just ^C and "look" into the module. remove the test
> and go back to the cpan shell. It won't bother you again for the whole
> CPAN session.
> 

Actually, the problem as highlighted in that Perlmonks article was with
BSDPAN::ExtUtils::Packlist.  A fix has been applied to the perl5.10,
perl5.12 and perl5.14 ports.

Anyone still using perl5.8 should take this as a broad hint that it
might be time to upgrade...

	Cheers,

	Matthew	

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