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Re: PM post on Makefile.PL FAIL for missing libraries

Barbie
Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:40:40 -0700

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 05:26:17PM +1000, Sisyphus wrote:
> 
> The big question for the author of the PM post (who I happen to know quite 
> well) is "Having had the 'Makefile.PL' process establish that the build 
> environment is inadequate, how does one then have the process terminate in 
> such a way that an NA is reported ?"

Just to be clear, it shouldn't be reported at all. It's not an NA report
as with the right librar(y|ies) it would work with that Perl/platform.

The problem is alerting the testing system in a way that it knows that
the reason the testing has been stopped is because of a missing
prerequisite. At the moment we don't have that.

Cheers,
Barbie.
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