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-rw-r--r--perl-install/interactive.pm2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/perl-install/interactive.pm b/perl-install/interactive.pm
index ebbd14fc9..6a9f488a9 100644
--- a/perl-install/interactive.pm
+++ b/perl-install/interactive.pm
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ sub ask_from_normalize {
foreach my $e (@$l) {
if (my $li = $e->{list}) {
- ref $e->{val} eq 'SCALAR' or internal_error($e->{val} ? "field {val} must be a reference" : "field {val} is mandatory");
+ ref($e->{val}) =~ /SCALAR|REF/ or internal_error($e->{val} ? "field {val} must be a reference (it is $e->{val})" : "field {val} is mandatory");
if ($e->{sort} || @$li > 10 && !exists $e->{sort}) {
my @l2 = map { may_apply($e->{format}, $_) } @$li;
my @places = sort { $l2[$a] cmp $l2[$b] } 0 .. $#l2;