PATH=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Bin\WinNT;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin;C:\cpanfly-5.16\var\megalib\bin;C:\Perl-5.16\site\bin;C:\Perl-5.16\bin;C:\cygwin\bin;C:\Program Files\Perforce;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\instantclient_11_2;C:\cygwin\bin;C:\Program Files\Perforce;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\mysql\bin Start 2013-07-02T03:12:41 ActivePerl-1600 CPAN-2.00 LIB=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\Lib\PSDK;C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Lib;C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\Lib;C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\MFC\Lib INCLUDE=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Include;C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\ATL\Include;C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\Include;C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\MFC\Include PATH=C:/CPANFL~1.16/var/libs/bin;C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Bin;C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Bin\WinNT;C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\Bin;C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\Common\MSDev98\Bin;C:\CPANFL~1.16\var\megalib\bin;C:\Perl-5.16\site\bin;C:\Perl-5.16\bin;C:\cygwin\bin;C:\PROGRA~1\Perforce;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINDOW~2\v1.0;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINDOW~2\v1.0;C:\INSTAN~1;C:\cygwin\bin;C:\PROGRA~1\Perforce;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINDOW~2\v1.0;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINDOW~2\v1.0;C:\mysql\bin Reading 'C:\cpanfly-5.16\var\cpan\Metadata' Database was generated on Tue, 02 Jul 2013 09:17:03 GMT Running make for R/RJ/RJBS/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003.tar.gz Fetching with LWP: http://cpan.nas.activestate.com/authors/id/R/RJ/RJBS/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003.tar.gz Checksum for C:\cpanfly-5.16\var\cpan\sources\authors\id\R\RJ\RJBS\Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003.tar.gz ok Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003 Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003/README Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003/Changes Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003/LICENSE Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003/dist.ini Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003/META.yml Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003/MANIFEST Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003/META.json Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003/Makefile.PL Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003/t Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003/t/00-compile.t Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003/xt/release Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003/xt/release/pod-syntax.t Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003/t/000-report-versions-tiny.t Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003/xt/release/changes_has_content.t Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003/lib/Dist/Zilla/Plugin/Git Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003/lib/Dist/Zilla/Plugin/Git/Describe.pm CPAN.pm: Building R/RJ/RJBS/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003.tar.gz >>> C:\Perl-5.16\bin\perl.exe Makefile.PL Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git::Describe Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json >>> nmake Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 7.00.8882 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-2000. All rights reserved. cp lib/Dist/Zilla/Plugin/Git/Describe.pm blib\lib\Dist\Zilla\Plugin\Git\Describe.pm RJBS/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003.tar.gz nmake -- OK Running make test >>> nmake test TEST_VERBOSE=1 Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 7.00.8882 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-2000. All rights reserved. C:\Perl-5.16\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(1, 'blib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t/*.t t/00-compile.t ................ 1..1 ok 1 - Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git::Describe loaded ok ok # # # Generated by Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ReportVersions::Tiny v1.08 # perl: 5.016000 (wanted any version) on MSWin32 from C:\Perl-5.16\bin\perl.exe # # Dist::Zilla::Role::FileMunger => 4.300030 (want any version) # Dist::Zilla::Role::PPI => 4.300030 (want any version) # ExtUtils::MakeMaker => 6.66 (want 6.30) # File::Find => 1.20 (want any version) # File::Temp => 0.22 (want any version) # Git::Wrapper => 0.029 (want any version) # Moose => 2.0802 (want any version) # Test::More => 0.98 (want 0.96) # Test::Pod => 1.48 (want 1.41) # Try::Tiny => 0.12 (want any version) # namespace::autoclean => 0.13 (want any version) # strict => 1.07 (want any version) # version => 0.9902 (want 0.9901) # warnings => 1.13 (want any version) # # Thanks for using my code. I hope it works for you. # If not, please try and include this output in the bug report. # That will help me reproduce the issue and solve your problem. # t/000-report-versions-tiny.t .. ok 1 - we really didn't test anything, just reporting data 1..1 ok All tests successful. Files=2, Tests=2, 3 wallclock secs ( 0.08 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.08 CPU) Result: PASS RJBS/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003.tar.gz nmake test TEST_VERBOSE=1 -- OK Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org> add the results of `git describe` (roughly) to your main module >>> (cd C:\cpanfly-5.16\var\cpan\build\Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003-YtFzFy && tar cvf - Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003.ppd blib) | gzip -c >C:/cpanfly-5.16/var/REPO/R/RJ/RJBS/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003.tar.gz No data could be read from file at C:\cpanfly-5.16\lib/Fly/MakePPD.pm line 333. Bad tarball: Archive::Tar can't read C:/cpanfly-5.16/var/REPO/R/RJ/RJBS/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe-0.003.tar.gz at C:\cpanfly-5.16\lib/Fly/MakePPD.pm line 334. C:\Perl-5.16\bin\perl.exe exits with 255.