On Fri, 07 Mar 2008, John Peacock wrote: > OK, I give up. How to I communicate to the CPAN testing framework that > the test machine is missing a required/vital external binary and > should just NA this test? I've replicated the way that the code itself > searches for the binary (svnlook if you care) in my Build.PL, and I'm > using 'exit 0', which is what is supposed to make CPAN itself happy to > stop. But the damn CPAN Testing framework is trying to grovel around > inside the [now ungenerated] _cpan/prereqs file: > > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/03/msg1108978.html > > Do I die instead? ARRRRGGGGGGG!
The magic string is: die "OS unsupported\n"; It is a bit misleading, but those are the magic words to give you an NA result. Cheers, -Jan
