From 849e714147330239fee9e98cc8c76781897e306e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alessandro Ranellucci <aar@cpan.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:40:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Complain loudly if XS cannot be compiled

---
 Build.PL | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Build.PL b/Build.PL
index 7b4ac81fa..ffa225076 100644
--- a/Build.PL
+++ b/Build.PL
@@ -126,7 +126,10 @@ EOF
                 system './xs/Build', 'distclean';
             }
         }
-        system $cpanm, '--reinstall', './xs';
+        my $res = system $cpanm, '--reinstall', './xs';
+        if ($res != 0) {
+            die "The XS/C++ code failed to compile, aborting\n";
+        }
     }
 }