> So I don't know how to proceed at this point. We could either
>
> 1) leave things as-is, which allows the cpan client to sift through the
> generated Makefile in order to pursue unsatisfied prereqs,
>
> or
>
> 2) change back the "warn" calls to "die", which will confuse the cpan
> client, but will allow human users to figure out exactly what needs to
> be done in order for the build to continue.
>
> Opinions?

It seems to me that both are desirable under different circumstances. Does it
make sense to add an option to configure.pl ("--die-if-prereqs-fail"?) which
controls this?

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