From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 20:26:06 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: MakeMaker should attempt to "require" rather than "use" prerequisites
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MakeMaker should attempt to "require" rather than "use" prerequisites
to avoid imports (from Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4748
---

diff --git a/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm b/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
index f323d27..7afa4f3 100644
--- a/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+++ b/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
@@ -382,9 +382,13 @@ sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::new {
 
     my($prereq);
     foreach $prereq (sort keys %{$self->{PREREQ_PM}}) {
-	my $eval = "use $prereq $self->{PREREQ_PM}->{$prereq}";
+	my $eval = "require $prereq";
 	eval $eval;
-	if ($@){
+
+	if ($@) {
+	    warn "Warning: prerequisite $prereq failed to load: $@";
+	}
+	else if ($prereq->VERSION < $self->{PREREQ_PM}->{$prereq} ){
 	    warn "Warning: prerequisite $prereq $self->{PREREQ_PM}->{$prereq} not found";
 # Why is/was this 'delete' here?  We need PREREQ_PM later to make PPDs.
 #	} else {