Either that, or I'm going nuts.

I've been adding a test suite to our app. Everything's going smoothly. Then I try an install and I get an error. I write a minimal test case for it. Error is:

F/Ast/Action.pm did not return a true value at tmp.pl line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at tmp.pl line 4.

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line 4 is the use statement loading the module. So, I take a look at it. It ends in a "1;" on it's own line.

perl -c F/Ast/Action.pm gives no errors or warnings.

So I start ripping out subs to create a minimal case. I end up with this:

package F::Ast::Action;

use Switch;
use strict;
use warnings;

=over 4
=item constants

=back

=cut

sub new
{
    return bless [], shift;
}

sub doCmd
{
    my $self = shift ;
    my $cmd  = shift ;

    switch ($cmd)
    {
        case 'get_permission'     {}
    }

}

1;

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Here's where it gets weird. If I remove the pod, the test script works fine. If I put it back and remove the doCmd sub, it works just fine. And if I move the module into the same directory as the test script (renaming and amending use statement), it works fine.

I am very, very confused.

Any ideas as to what my sleepy head could be missing? I'm about ready to start headbutting the keyboard...

In reply to Extremely weird module issue... by cLive ;-)

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