CPAN hanging on ExtUtils::MakeMaker even if installed

[Matthew Seaman]

On 22/02/2012 16:35, Alejandro Imass wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Alejandro Imass <ait at p2ee.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Alejandro
> 
> This person says the problem is in BSDPAN::ExtUtils::Packlist  - maybe
> someone could help the maintainer solve this problem! It is _really_,
> _really_ annoying. I sadly don't have the time right now and only deal
> with problem from time to time, but if someone has the time it would
> be really great to fix!!!
> 
> http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=922671
> 

It's already been fixed in 3 of the 4 perl ports:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=162151

The remaining port (lang/perl5.8) hasn't been modified in 7 months, and
I believe it may well be deprecated and removed fairly soon.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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