Adam Kennedy opened a ticket against Module::Build, which David Golden correctly
interpreted as being version.pm's fault (in the pure Perl release only). I've
committed a change (and test) that will be part of version-0.77. The matching
fix needs to be applied to Module::Build's inline code.
John
=== lib/Module/Build/Version.pm
==================================================================
--- lib/Module/Build/Version.pm (revision 2640)
+++ lib/Module/Build/Version.pm (local)
@@ -628,15 +628,17 @@
my $class = ref($obj) || $obj;
no strict 'refs';
- eval "require $class" unless %{"$class\::"}; # already existing
- return undef if $@ =~ /Can't locate/ and not defined $req;
+ unless (%{"$class\::"}) { # class not already loaded
+ eval "require $class";
+ return undef if $@ =~ /Can't locate/ and not defined $req;
+ }
if ( not %{"$class\::"} and $] >= 5.008) { # file but no package
require Carp;
Carp::croak( "$class defines neither package nor VERSION"
."--version check failed");
}
-
+
my $version = eval "\$$class\::VERSION";
if ( defined $version ) {
local $^W if $] <= 5.008;
