Updated 9PM PST: Putting VERSIONCHECK: DISABLE in my xs file, after the MODULE statement, allowed 'make test' to run.

But there was more to the story. When I then got to 'make tardist', it made an awful-looking filename for the tar.gz, ending (the file is not around any more) something like \005\001.tar.gz instead of 0.5.1.tar.gz. From this I inferred that something in the chain ExtUtils::MakeMaker -> tar -> gzip did not like my new $VERSION = "0.5.1" in my .pm file. So I changed it to "0.51", also in the name of the build directory.

With this change the VERSIONCHECK: DISABLE is no longer needed in my .xs file.

A monastery should have some scribes to record stuff like this for the coming ages...

Thanks for the help,
cmac

In reply to Re^3: problem incrementing module version number by cmac
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