# from Graham TerMarsch
# on Thursday 27 September 2007 12:38:
>> There's a new META.yml field under development called
>> "configure_requires" to account for that case. The latest CPAN.pm
>> supports it. Again, I don't know about CPANPLUS.
>
>Cool. For my own edification, how does CPAN behave when it encounters
> a missing "configure_requires"? Does it simply install the
> dependency and then continue, or does it install it and then re-run
> "perl Makefile.PL"? Or, alternatively, does it just choke outright
> and abort the build?
It must be in META.yml (since the whole point is to install it before
running the Build.PL/Makefile.PL), then the installer is supposed to
install the dependencies (or prompt (and then quit if you say no I
guess.))
--Eric
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The only thing that could save UNIX at this late date would be a new $30
shareware version that runs on an unexpanded Commodore 64.
--Don Lancaster (1991)
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