On Fri 04 Jul 2008, Mark Hedges wrote:
>  How am I supposed to tell CPAN that the distribution
>  requires Apache::TestMM when Makefile.PL uses it before
>  `make` is even executed?

You mustn't die that means return an OK result (exit 0). But you mustn't 
create a Makefile. I do that this way:

BEGIN {
  eval {
    require ModPerl::MM;
    require Apache::TestMM;
  };
  if( $@ ) {
    exit 0;
  }
  Apache::TestMM-> import( qw(test clean) );
}

# accept the configs from command line
Apache::TestMM::filter_args();
...

It is documented, see http://cpantest.grango.org/wiki/CPANAuthorNotes. Look 
for "How can I stop getting FAIL reports for missing libraries or other 
non-Perl dependencies?"

Torsten

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