Re: Can't determine distribution version

[email protected] ("David E. Wheeler")
Newsgroups perl.module.build
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jul 10, 2008, at 17:10, Eric Wilhelm wrote:

>> The second issue was with activitymail. I got this error:
>>
>> Can't determine distribution version, must supply either
>> 'dist_version', 'dist_version_from', or 'module_name' parameter at
>> /usr/local/lib/ perl5/5.10.0/Module/Build/Base.pm line 978.
>>
>> This despite this line in Build.PL (which has worked in the past):
>>
>>      dist_version_from  => 'bin/activitymail',
>
> Bah.  r10222.  Same deal for version.pm in fact.
>
> Would you be able to write a test for this?  The t/script_dist.t might
> be a good start.

I don't understand why that test doesn't fail. And what is it you were  
trying to achieve in r10222? How could it break this?

Thanks,

David
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