Thanks - Hmmm - I was sure that I installed both ( Inline and perl ) using the same
shell environment.
I'm not sure that there would be any great benefit in having an Inline-rc-file - it
just becomes another thing to maintain - I, for one, am quite happy to put it in
config directive. Additionally - the only reason the gcc can't befound in the default
system path is because I can't convince the one eyed HP-UX sysadmin that I have :-) to
do it!
Thanks once again - cheers.
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:48:43PM -0700, Neil Watkiss wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Piers Harding wrote:
>
> > Hi Neil,
> >
> > Thanks for taking the time.
> >
> > Initially it didn't work, until I fully qualified the path to the gcc,
> > and then it worked a charm. I am wondering if it is something to do
> > with the shell used to execute the make in, as I am using bash, and
> > not the /sbin/sh default for HP-UX. This also means that the only
> > reference to the gcc is in my own .profile file PATH definition.
> >
> > Is this a possible cause?
>
> It's not only possible, it's probable. I'm not sure if there's an easier
> way of finding the compiler other than hard-coding it. On the plus side,
> you only have to define this value once in your script:
>
> use Inline Config => CC => '/path/to/gcc';
> use Inline C; # both of these invocations
> use Inline C; # know where CC lives
>
> The problem here is that Inline::C's Makefile.PL searches for the compiler
> by looking at $ENV{PATH}. But there's no guarantee that your path is the
> same as the path found when actually compiling code. The Makefile.PL could
> compare $ENV{SHELL} to $Config{sh} and warn you of this possibility if
> they're different, I suppose...
>
> (I get around this issue in Inline::CPP by guessing the guessing the
> compiler location, prompting the user, and hard-wiring the info into
> CPP.pm, which is just as hideous. There are much better ways of doing it,
> like storing values in config files that get installed or using
> Inline::Files.)
>
> We-should-add-support-for-~/.inlinerc-ly,
> Neil
