[Xapian-discuss] Problem encountered when creating a .deb of Search::Xapian 1.0.5

[Oliver Flimm]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 02:21:48PM +0000, Matthew Somerville wrote:
> "dh-make-perl --cpan Search::Xapian" failed with an error in line 119 of 
> Makefile.PL. This is the line that tries to open the newly created Makefile 
> so that it can do a Xapian version compare check. After investigation, it 
> turns out that dh-make-perl (this is etch's 0.25) uses 
> Module::Depends::Intrusive to perform module dependency checks, which in 
> turn captures the output of running Makefile.PL, which means the file isn't 
> there when Makefile.PL tries to open it. I think :)

try adding --depends '' as an option,

eg.

dh-make-perl --depends '' --build --cpan Search::Xapian 

Regards,

Oliver