id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
355	Padre does not rebuild wxPerl automatically if it was not built by unicode support	coke		"Inspired by http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/38970, I thought I'd check out padre-latest, so I tried to install it like so:

{{{
D:\>cpan Padre
Database was generated on Wed, 13 May 2009 18:50:50 GMT
Running install for module 'Padre'
Running make for J/JQ/JQUELIN/Padre-0.35.tar.gz
Checksum for C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\id\J\JQ\JQUELIN\Padre-0.35.tar.g
z ok

  CPAN.pm: Going to build J/JQ/JQUELIN/Padre-0.35.tar.gz

Found locale    English_United States.1252
Found wxWidgets 2.8.8
Found Wx.pm     0.89
Padre needs wxWidgest to be compile with Unicode support (--enable-unicode)
Warning: No success on command[C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe Makefile.PL]
  JQUELIN/Padre-0.35.tar.gz
  C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe Makefile.PL -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Make had some problems, won't test
Running make install
  Make had some problems, won't install

D:\>cpan -v
C:\strawberry\perl\bin/cpan script version 1.9, CPAN.pm version 1.9304
}}}

As tsee explained to me on #padre, this is because a dependency is installed, but was compiled sans the listed option. (Note: there's a typo in the error message there.)

It would be nice if there was a module (tsee referenced Alien::wxWidgets::WithUnicode but I don't see that on CPAN) that forced a build of the dependency with the desired options, and then Padre could depend on that.

Alternatively, if Padre can run with or without the setting (using latin/ascii or unicode depending on what's available.), that would also be spiffy.

Regards.
"	enhancement	closed	major		External dependency	0.35	not relevant	cpan build	alexchorny@…