On Fri 04 Jul 2008, Mark Hedges wrote:
> How am I supposed to tell CPAN that the distribution
> requires Apache::TestMM when Makefile.PL uses it before
> `make` is even executed?

You mustn't die that means return an OK result (exit 0). But you mustn't
create a Makefile. I do that this way:

BEGIN {
eval {
  require ModPerl::MM;
  require Apache::TestMM;
};
if( $@ ) {
  exit 0;
}
Apache::TestMM->import( qw(test clean) );
}

# accept the configs from command line
Apache::TestMM::filter_args();
...

It is documented, see http://cpantest.grango.org/wiki/CPANAuthorNotes. Look
for "How can I stop getting FAIL reports for missing libraries or other
non-Perl dependencies?"

Torsten

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