On Monday 11 March 2019 14:28:38 Pete Biggs wrote: > > However, as I went for bigger modules, anything that had dependences > > were then failing as the dependencie were installed OK but then did not > > appear to be available. > A number of things you can do. The sort of recommended way is to > package the perl modules into an RPM and install them that way (so that > the package managers know about them and can resolve conflicts). There > are progs to do it for - look for cpanspec. I have found the following page to install using cpanspec, and all went well until I actually want to build the RPM's. Doesn't matter what I try to build I get the same problems with the man pages being missing, and nothing gets built. [root at lou cpanspec]# rpmbuild -ba perl-strictures.spec Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.H8RqZz + umask 022 + cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD + rm -rf strictures-2.000006 + /usr/bin/gzip -dc /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/strictures-2.000006.tar.gz + /usr/bin/tar -xf - + STATUS=0 + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']' + cd strictures-2.000006 + /usr/bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w . + exit 0 Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.WPzjcW + umask 022 + cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd strictures-2.000006 + /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Warning: prerequisite bareword::filehandles 0 not found. Warning: prerequisite indirect 0 not found. Warning: prerequisite multidimensional 0 not found. Writing Makefile for strictures Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json + make -j2 cp lib/strictures/extra.pm blib/lib/strictures/extra.pm cp lib/strictures.pm blib/lib/strictures.pm Manifying blib/man3/strictures::extra.3pm Manifying blib/man3/strictures.3pm + exit 0 Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.pxcIGj + umask 022 + cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD + '[' /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64 '!=' / ']' + rm -rf /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64 ++ dirname /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64 + mkdir -p /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT + mkdir /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64 + cd strictures-2.000006 + rm -rf /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64 + make pure_install PERL_INSTALL_ROOT=/root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64 Manifying blib/man3/strictures::extra.3pm Manifying blib/man3/strictures.3pm Installing /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64/root/perl5/lib/perl5/strictures.pm Installing /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64/root/perl5/lib/perl5/strictures/extra.pm Installing /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64/root/perl5/man/man3/strictures::extra.3pm Installing /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64/root/perl5/man/man3/strictures.3pm + find /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64 -type f -name .packlist -exec rm -f '{}' ';' + find /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64 -depth -type d -exec rmdir '{}' ';' + /usr/bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64/root + /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh --strict-build-id -m --run-dwz --dwz-low-mem-die-limit 10000000 --dwz-max-die-limit 110000000 /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/strictures-2.000006 /usr/lib/rpm/sepdebugcrcfix: Updated 0 CRC32s, 0 CRC32s did match. + /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-compress + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-static-archive /usr/bin/strip + /usr/lib/rpm/brp-python-bytecompile /usr/bin/python 1 + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-python-hardlink + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-java-repack-jars Executing(%check): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.RIav4H + umask 022 + cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd strictures-2.000006 + make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/crash.t ....... ok t/extras.t ...... ok t/strictures.t .. ok All tests successful. Files=3, Tests=42, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr 0.01 sys + 0.06 cusr 0.01 csys = 0.10 CPU) Result: PASS + exit 0 Processing files: perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.noarch error: File not found by glob: /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/* error: File not found by glob: /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64/usr/share/man/man3/* Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.QDACU6 + umask 022 + cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd strictures-2.000006 + DOCDIR=/root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64/usr/share/doc/perl-strictures-2.000006 + export DOCDIR + /usr/bin/mkdir -p /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64/usr/share/doc/perl-strictures-2.000006 + cp -pr Changes /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64/usr/share/doc/perl-strictures-2.000006 + cp -pr LICENSE /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64/usr/share/doc/perl-strictures-2.000006 + cp -pr META.json /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64/usr/share/doc/perl-strictures-2.000006 + cp -pr README /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64/usr/share/doc/perl-strictures-2.000006 + exit 0 RPM build errors: File not found by glob: /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/* File not found by glob: /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-strictures-2.000006-1.el7.x86_64/usr/share/man/man3/* [root at lou cpanspec]#