Christian Lemburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> From: "Adam Spiers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Christian Lemburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > Good. What do I need to check out to make the self tests work?
> > > I checked it out with 'cvs update -d -r pdc_coderef_inner_class',
> > > and make_test fails on two tests.
> ...
> > Isn't this the same base.pm problem I posted about a few days ago?  If
> > you're running Perl < 5.6, try putting the attached base.pm at the top
> > of @INC.
> 
> Yup, that solved it. Thanks.
> 
> Hm, we will have to think about this - a lot of people run on 5.005_03,
> since this is the last release of perl that really runs really stable, and
> it still comes prepackaged with a lot of distributions.

Nasty, isn't it?  Possible workarounds:

 1. Document it
 2. Get `make install' to check for the brokenness and warn
 3. Add `use Foo;' before every `use base qw(Foo);'
 4. Provide a patch

3. is the easiest but somehow I don't like it.

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