Re: invalid installdirs values

[email protected] (Eric Wilhelm)
Newsgroups perl.module.build
Message-ID <[email protected]>
# from Michael G Schwern
# on Thursday 25 September 2008:

>I got the same thing.  It's from using an invalid value for
> --installdirs
>
>$ perl5.10.0 Build.PL --installdirs=wibble --prefix=foo
>Checking whether your kit is complete...
>...
>
>$ build
>Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference at
>/usr/local/perl/5.10.0/lib/5.10.0/Module/Build/Base.pm line 3679.
>
>...which Module::Build should probably tell you about earlier.

Hi all,

Anyone looking for a small task to get their feet wet?  A patch which 
throws an informative error for invalid values here and a test which 
demonstrates that would be nice.

Thanks,
Eric
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