Re: Troubles with 'use diagnostics;'

[Sisyphus]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Serguei Trouchelle" <s...@railways.dp.ua>
To: "Sisyphus" <sisyph...@optusnet.com.au>
Cc: "cpan-testers" <cpan-testers-discuss@perl.org>
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: Troubles with 'use diagnostics;'


Sisyphus wrote:

I've received some test failures for Inline stemming from 'use
diagnostics;' in the test scripts - originally from apocal (a couple of
weeks back) and today from stro. See:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2010/01/msg6749321.html

I'm assuming this is because of something incorrectly set up in the
testers environment ... and not the result of some sin being committed
by Inline. Can anyone confirm ?

This box (arm-none-linux-gnueabi 2.6.26-1-orion5x) is a Western Digital 
MyBook World Edition mkII, and it has no C compiler, maybe that's the 
source of problem?

With no compiler, the Makefile.PL should throw up (in relation to 
$Config{cc}, whatever that happens to be):
###########################
I cannot locate this compiler on your system.

You can install Inline.pm without installing Inline::C. But you'll
need to install another Inline language module (like Inline::Java for
instance) to actually make use of it.

If the aforementioned C compiler really is on your system, please make sure
it can be found in the PATH and then try running this program again. Or if
you think I made an error searching for this compiler, simply answer 'Y' to
the next question.

Do you want to install Inline::C? [n]
###########################

And I would have thought that would lead to a successful build of Inline 
(but without Inline::C). At least that's what happens when *I* try to build 
Inline without making a compiler visible.
Even if I do force the Inline::C build (by entering 'y' at the above 
prompt), I still don't get any failures relating to 'use diagnostics;'. The 
errors I get stem from $Config{cc} being unlocatable - which is to be 
expected.

No matter ... I just wanted to be sure that this is not something that I 
need to fix ... and I'm now satisfied that's the case :-)

Thanks Seguei, David.

Cheers,
Rob