On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Geoffrey Broadwell > # Please include the string: [perl #53034] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=53034 > > > > The attached small patch makes Configure give a sensible error message > when a config step has no associated test files, rather than exploding > obtusely.
> + my $these_tests = $steps_tests{$temp[0]}{$temp[1]} > + or croak "No tests exist for configure step $step"; Thank you. That's definitely an improvement. I know I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out what the previous failure mode meant. Still, why croak? Is the lack of a test really so fatal that it should be impossible to Configure or build parrot -- even if you're just starting to develop the configure step? This seems to me more of the level of a coding standard warning, not a fatal error. -- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]