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Id: 6729
Status: open
Priority: 0/
Queue: XML-LibXML-Common
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: david [...] cantrell.org.uk
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Severity: Wishlist
Broken in: 0.13
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  Wed Jun 23 07:01:55 2004 dcantrell [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
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.
  Sat Nov 06 10:16:47 2004 phish [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sat Nov 06 10:16:48 2004 phish [...] cpan.org - Severity Important changed to Wishlist