Re: "WARNING: Setting ABSTRACT via file 'lib/PSPP.pm' failed"

[Ben Pfaff]

Thanks.

I pushed this out, along with two other build system fixes.

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> I think I went down the same path of discovery and couldn't find
> the real solution either.  But like you say it's not terribly important,
> and avoids this annoying warning.
>
> Please push it at your convenience.
>
> J'
>
> Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:29:14PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      One of the problems that I have with the perl module build is
>      that I always get the following messages when the Perl makefile
>      has to be rebuilt:
>      
>          WARNING: Setting ABSTRACT via file 'lib/PSPP.pm' failed
>           at /usr/share/perl/5.10/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm line 583
>          Writing Makefile for PSPP
>              
>      I assumed, until now, that this was some kind of serious error.
>      But it seems that, in fact, Perl is just saying that it can't
>      find the one-line description of the Perl module inside
>      lib/PSPP.pm.  When I change the ABSTRACT_FROM line in Makefile.PL
>      to give the abstract itself, e.g.:
>      
>            (ABSTRACT       => 'Perl extension to PSPP',
>      
>      then that fixes that problem.
>      
>      I assume that changing lib/PSPP.pm.in is a better solution, but I
>      tried one or two possibilities and couldn't make that work.
>      
>      May I push the change from ABSTRACT_FROM to ABSTRACT (or will you
>      fix this the right way)?
>      
>      Thanks,
>      
>      Ben.
>      -- 
>      Ben Pfaff 
>      http://benpfaff.org

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