On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 13:25, Robin Berjon wrote:
> Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > $ perl Makefile.PL DEBUG=1
> >
> > And you'll find out exactly why it can't find it.
>
> Would it be wise to wrap the entire Makefile.PL in an eval block, and tack onto
> the end:
>
> if ($@) {
> warn "Makefile.PL encountered a FATAL ERROR. Rerunning in DEBUG mode for
> more information.\n";
> exec 'perl', 'Makefile.PL', 'DEBUG=1';
> }
Far more useful would be to make the resource tests report what is
actually missing and where it was sought. In the present case, I'd
like to see an error message which said something like:
AxKit needs the iconv library and can't find it on your system.
I've looked for iconv.h in /usr/include, /usr/local/include,...
I've looked for libiconv.so in /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib,...
If you have these files somewhere else, you can re-run me and
specify the location by following the command with arguments
--find filename1:location1 --find filename2:location2 ...
This would be infinitely more usable than spewing out system error
messages, but would obviously entail a lot more work in writing the
installation routine. And the user would need to feel certain that
specifying such arguments really would make it look in those places.
My specific problem is that I don't now have any faith in the
Makefile.PL actually looking in the specified locations at all,
even though it claims to be. I'm not sure how to fix that.
///Peter
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