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

[Ben Pfaff]

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.
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