Minilla needs to be able to produce a Build.PL that supports a @INC without . in it.

[toddr]

As a result of CVE-2016-1238, In 5.26 it will be a build option to make a perl without . in @INC. This requires the script writer to be explicit if they want to load modules from relative paths.

For more info you can also see https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130467 and https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127810 for core perl discussions.

My doc is here http://blogs.perl.org/users/todd_rinaldo/2016/11/how-removing-from-inc-is-about-to-break-cpan.html

I've opened this ticket to start a discussion about fixing Minil based modules that cannot run Build.PL without . in @INC.

I've reported this in the following places: https://github.com/goccy/p5-Compiler-Lexer/pull/78 https://github.com/gfx/p5-Hash-FieldHash/pull/2 https://github.com/kazeburo/WWW-Form-UrlEncoded/pull/4 https://github.com/gfx/p5-Mouse/issues/69

The typical failure is:

$>perl Build.PL
Can't locate builder/MyBuilder.pm in @INC (you may need to install the builder::MyBuilder module) (@INC contains: /home/smoker/perl5/lib/perl5/5.25.9/x86_64-linux /home/smoker/perl5/lib/perl5/5.25.9 /home/smoker/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux /home/smoker/perl5/lib/perl5 /perl/5.25.9/lib/site_perl/5.25.9/x86_64-linux /perl/5.25.9/lib/site_perl/5.25.9 /perl/5.25.9/lib/5.25.9/x86_64-linux /perl/5.25.9/lib/5.25.9) at Build.PL line 12.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Build.PL line 12.

[toddr]

Under normal circumstances you could just patch the load line from:

use builder::MyBuilder;

to:

require './builder/MyBuilder.pm'

But this seems to produce a file in _loader which also has to be patched so I don't know the suggested patch just yet.

[toddr]

Looks like we'd need about 40 dists to re-roll once this is fixed. http://grep.cpan.me/?q=file%3Dminil.toml+build_class

[karenetheridge]

Looks like we'd need about 40 dists to re-roll once this is fixed.

Hopefully most of those can just switch to ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build::Tiny -- Module::Build is no longer the default builder in Minilla.

[toddr]

Looks like we've merged the pull request. Just needs to be released.