Module-Build 0.2806

on Perl CPAN

On some systems (haven't identified the actual problem yet)
$ENV{PERL5LIB} can grow to enormous enough sizes that we can't
launch any more subprocesses because the environment table is full.
This is the now-infamous "Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too
long" error. Now we detect such situations and trim the directory
list to only include directories that actually exist, listed only
once each. Not the ideal solution, but it should work.

Silence a warning in M::B::ModuleInfo that happens when the author
is using the "$VERSION = eval $VERSION" idiom.

When running the 'testcover' action, do "cover --delete" if any of
the test files have changed (we already did so if any of the code
under test has changed). [Suggested by Chris Dolan, RT #23584]

Fixed a broken link in the documentation about PREFIX. [Spotted by
David Steinbrunner]

Changes to do_system() & friends on VMS to get system calls working
much better there. [Craig Berry]

Added the "pardist" target which creates a PAR binary distribution
akin to a PPM distribution. [Steffen Mueller]

Added the Interix platform as a Unix variant. [Stephen Hartland]

Improved the error message we emit when a distribution contains XS
files but the user has no C compiler. [Suggested by Andreas Koenig]