Installation fails on ActivePerl without environment setting

[MidLifeXis]

If the environment variable ACTIVEPERL_CONFIG_SILENT is not set to 1, the build harness emits a warning, causing t/unit_run_test_harness.t to fail.

See Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-MakeMaker#65 for a related fix on EU::MM.

This is perl, v5.8.9 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 12 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2008, Larry Wall

Binary build 826 [290470] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveState.com
Built May 24 2009 09:21:05

[Leont]

I can't help thinking why the hell is that really necessary?

[karenetheridge]

Is there any documentation on this config variable? What is ActivePerl doing that generates this warning?

[MidLifeXis]

A quick search finds http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.8/lib/ActivePerl/Config.html. It appears that ActivePerl:Config emits this message when a supported compilation environment that was not used to originally build the distribution (for example, if you install the compilation environment that includes dmake and gcc) you will get this message.

[MidLifeXis]

@Leont agree, 100%.