On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:11:22AM -0500, Reini Urban wrote: > >looks like a broken test machine to me, I don't think this is fixable at my > >end. > > > >What do you think? > > It is fixable. > You just need to install libcrypt-dev and probably more -dev packages then. > > There's only libcrypt0 in the dependencies, and this is only needed > to run perl, but not to create external XS packages.
Devel::CheckLib can be employed within Makefile.PL to check for the existence of required libraries or headers, before attempting to install the distribution. (There's also a Dist::Zilla plugin to mangle your Makefile.PL/Build.PL for you.)
