You probably have noticed that almost every time there is a bug report from a person who is doing this for the first time, we need to tell them: go to
http://perl.apache.org/bugs and follow the guidelines for a proper bug-report. I was thinking how can we save this wasteful cycle. For example we could adjust the failure message of 'make test' (in both mp1 and mp2) to provide that information.


Certainly it's going to be hard with post-install problems. But we could finish the 'make install' target with a banner explaining what to do in the case of the post-install errors. Certainly this would be missed by those who install RPMs and similar prepackaged distros (though they could be changed to print a notice as well), but many install from source so that would help a lot I think.

Something as simple and outstanding as:

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