Hello monks,

I'm getting an odd warning whenever I try to generate a Makefile using ExtUtils::MakeMaker. I'm using MakeMaker version 5.45 on perl 5.6.1. It only happens with one of my modules. So, there must be something going on in my module that is causing it, but I don't even know where to start looking. Has anybody else ever encountered this warning? Can somebody fill me in on what it means, or what to check for in my module? The module was created using 'h2xs -X'.

WARNING: Setting ABSTRACT via file 'NewModule.pm' failed
 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm line 507

Like I said, it's a warning. The Makefile does get generated properly, and it works fine. I'm just really curious about this warning.

In reply to What does this ABSTRACT warning from MakeMaker mean? by ehdonhon

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