On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Jens Rehsack <rehs...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1) compiler cannot create executables > 2) compiler works, but no perl headers > 3) compiler does, but shared library building fails (that is fragile and > minor modifications at the system causes that process to fail)
These three would all fail to make, which would abort installation. > 4) As you say: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75672 Oooh! Excellent example. "make" succeeds and "make test" could fall back to PP when dynaloading fails. I wonder if there's a way to be clever about this such that under PUREPERL_ONLY, make never compiles the extension, and then the main module doesn't just try bootstrap inside eval{} but actually checks to see if the extension is in @INC. If so, bootstrap it or die; if not, fall back to pure Perl. David -- David Golden <x...@xdg.me> Twitter/IRC: @xdg
