On Thursday 27 September 2007 12:57 pm, David Golden wrote: > On 9/27/07, Graham TerMarsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cool. For my own edification, how does CPAN behave when it encounters a > > missing "configure_requires"? Does it simply install the dependency and > > then continue, or does it install it and then re-run "perl Makefile.PL"? > > Or, alternatively, does it just choke outright and abort the build? > > From a quick skim of the code, it looks like it processes configure_requires > right after it downloads and unpacks the distribution tarball. If > configure_requires can't be satisfied, it doesn't continue at all. > > As Eric said, configure_requires does have to be in the META.yml, though.
Perfect... Now all I need is for M::B to support "configure_requires" directly so that I don't have to set it up via "meta_add". I'm sure that's something that Eric has been working on getting added, though... :) -- Graham TerMarsch Howling Frog Internet Development, Inc.
