On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Linda W <perl-didd...@tlinx.org> wrote:
> I am trying to specify a pre-req that needs to be present for > my module to work. > > I have it under the PREREQ_PM section next in my Makefile.PL > as well as under the BUILD_REQUIRES section. > > I'm not sure I specified the version correctly -- I note that > Test::Simple, has a floating point version, while mine has > a string '0.3.2'. > You should specify such versions as 'v0.3.2'. Without the v the vstring/version object logic doesn't kick in. > Yet the reports for the new version have nothing like that > at the top... > > So I'm stumped... Why don't the pre-req's in the Makefile.PL > pull down the needed modules and how can the test continue > to run when it should have died up front? > Also, ExtUtils::MakeMaker only supports this properly since 6.70, so you'd need a configure dependency on that too :-( Leon
