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Id: 6729
Status: open
Priority: 0/
Queue: XML-LibXML-Common

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Requestors: david [...] cantrell.org.uk
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Severity: Wishlist
Broken in: 0.13
Fixed in: (no value)



Subject: Makefile.PL fails with misleading error messages
If the user lacks permission to create the temporary files that are used by Makefile.PL to figure out how to link to the C library, then the error reported is that the library can't be found. It should instead report that the code for figuring out where it is failed.