A collection of distribution preferences for CPAN.pm
This directory contains a number of files for the CPAN.pm distroprefs system.
In a nutshell, use these files if you encounter problems when installing or testing CPAN modules — maybe the solution for the problem is already contained here.
How to use it: you can git-clone the whole directory into
~/.cpan/prefs or ~/.local/share/.cpan/prefs (depending on your CPAN.pm
distribution). However, it's recommended to pick only the distropref
files you really need, so just copy or symlink these files only. Most
files are named after the CPAN distribution (e.g. X11-Xlib.yml for the
CPAN distribution X11-Xlib).
Also make make sure that a YAML module is installed, either YAML,
YAML::Syck, or YAML::XS. (In former versions of this repository
not all YAML files were YAML::XS compatible, but this is solved now)
How to check if it worked: While CPAN.pm is building a module, and a
matching distropref file is found, you'll see something like
______________________ D i s t r o P r e f s ______________________
X11-Xlib.dd[0]
in the log output.
Details: some of the distroprefs files make use of the "except"
feature to automatically answers interactive questions. This feature
requires an installed Expect module, so make sure that this module
is installed. Expect does not work on Windows systems --- in this
case the distroprefs files have to be rewritten. Often an environment
variable for turning off the interactivity exists (e.g.
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1), or perl Makefile.PL accepts further
commandline arguments to set options.