* Your first test throws an exception. * You OS test fails. * BAIL_OUT causes the process to exit with a non-successful return.

As I understood it, that's what I'm supposed to do. According to the "Notes For CPAN Authors" page, in the ""How can I indicate that my distribution only works on a particular operating system?" section, it says 

While it isn't a very elegant solution, the recommend approach is to e
+ither die in the Makefile.PL or Build.PL (or BAIL_OUT in a test file)
+ with one of the following messages:

  • No support for OS
  • OS unsupported

CPAN Testers tools will look for one of those phrases and will send an
+ NA (Not Available) report for that platform.

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That's what I'm doing. 'make test' works fine on my system as well as a NetBSD system that I can access; if I change the above OS test to include Linux, it bails properly at that time.

Or maybe you're really trying to do something other than confuse would-be users.

That's unnecessarily and pointlessly unkind as well as somewhat nonsensical. What does a test, which is supposed to prevent installation on non-compliant OSes, have to do with "confusing users"? It explicitly bails on systems that are not supported, which would prevent confusion.

My point is that is should fail on a Windows system, but it should not result in a 'FAIL'ed test from CPANtesters (which, in theory at least, should bail on testing any of the unsupported OSes and test the ones that don't abort.) I am NOT asking "how do I make this not fail on Windows". I am asking "how do I tell CPANtesters that it should not test on Windows, etc. platforms?" 

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 -- W. B. Yeats

In reply to Re^2: CPAN newbie troubles by oko1
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