On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Lutz Gehlen <lrg...@gmx.net> wrote: > My questions are: > 1) Do you think that this is in general a good approach to solve my > problem.
I think they are quite reasonable. You might also find the development version of Devel::CheckLib to be an alternative as as a more direct way to check the library even if configure_requires are not satisfied. (The dev version of Devel::CheckLib supports checking an arbitrary C function and you could use it to check the version.) > 2) Does this solution, specifically the STDERR output, indeed > achieve that CPAN testers will recognize this as N/A? It won't generate "NA" -- instead no report will be sent at all. Explanation: you have "exit(0)" in your code, which will terminate the Makefile.PL without creating a Makefile. That specific situation -- exit code zero but no Makefile.PL -- is interpreted by CPAN clients (and smoke testers) to mean that configuration is not possible for known reasons (as opposed to an error condition). In such a situation, no CPAN testers report would be sent at all, which is the appropriate behavior when a dependency cannot be satisfied. -- David
