Out of curiosity John, why would need to do an automatic run-time module load at all?
Adam K 2009/7/19 John Peacock <john.peac...@havurah-software.org>: > Adam Kennedy opened a ticket against Module::Build, which David Golden > correctly > interpreted as being version.pm's fault (in the pure Perl release only). I've > committed a change (and test) that will be part of version-0.77. The matching > fix needs to be applied to Module::Build's inline code. > > John > > === lib/Module/Build/Version.pm > ================================================================== > --- lib/Module/Build/Version.pm (revision 2640) > +++ lib/Module/Build/Version.pm (local) > @@ -628,15 +628,17 @@ > my $class = ref($obj) || $obj; > > no strict 'refs'; > - eval "require $class" unless %{"$class\::"}; # already existing > - return undef if $@ =~ /Can't locate/ and not defined $req; > + unless (%{"$class\::"}) { # class not already loaded > + eval "require $class"; > + return undef if $@ =~ /Can't locate/ and not defined $req; > + } > > if ( not %{"$class\::"} and $] >= 5.008) { # file but no package > require Carp; > Carp::croak( "$class defines neither package nor VERSION" > ."--version check failed"); > } > - > + > my $version = eval "\$$class\::VERSION"; > if ( defined $version ) { > local $^W if $] <= 5.008; > >