On 25 Feb 2008, at 16:25, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:59:14PM +, Andy Armstrong wrote:
Is there a generally approved way for an XS module to test for the
existence of a C compiler before attempting to build?
Personally I'd like such a test to be standard in MakeMaker,
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Andy Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a generally approved way for an XS module to test for the
existence of a C compiler before attempting to build?
Look at Devel::Checklib. If you don't select any libraries, I believe
it still checks for a
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:59:14PM +, Andy Armstrong wrote:
Is there a generally approved way for an XS module to test for the
existence of a C compiler before attempting to build?
Personally I'd like such a test to be standard in MakeMaker, because I am
of the (old fashioned) opinion
On 25 Feb 2008, at 16:35, David Golden wrote:
Look at Devel::Checklib. If you don't select any libraries, I believe
it still checks for a compiler.
Oh, so it does. I looked at it, quickly scanned assert_lib and
concluded that it wouldn't work - but now I see that _findcc can die.
Cool,
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 16:29 +, Andy Armstrong wrote:
Personally I'd like such a test to be standard in MakeMaker,
because
I am
of the (old fashioned) opinion that if %Config says that there is a
C
compiler and there isn't one, then it's lying (and the instalation
is broken,
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:22 -0500, Guy Hulbert wrote:
something as
horrible as:
-x `which $Config{cc}`
plus:
`which $Config{cc} --version` =~ m/$Config{gccversion}/
seems to work for all the combinations below ... but I can imagine
that there are situations where it might not.
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:25:33 +, Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:59:14PM +, Andy Armstrong wrote:
Is there a generally approved way for an XS module to test for the
existence of a C compiler before attempting to build?
Personally I'd like such a
On 25 Feb 2008, at 18:30, Guy Hulbert wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:22 -0500, Guy Hulbert wrote:
something as
horrible as:
-x `which $Config{cc}`
plus:
`which $Config{cc} --version` =~ m/$Config{gccversion}/
seems to work for all the combinations below ... but I can imagine
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 18:33 +, Andy Armstrong wrote:
See also Windows, VMS, any other machine that doesn't have which.
... I was just looking at which %Config vars you need to check ... I
left VMS before I started perl and I havn't made it to Windows yet.
You could use something like:
sub
On 25 Feb 2008, at 18:42, Guy Hulbert wrote:
You still need to figure out whether to check 'ccversion' or
'gccversion' to when $Config{cc} can be either 'cc' or 'gcc' and also
how to find the '--version' string on windows ... but it looks doable.
I'm using Devel::CheckLib and relying on David
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 18:12 +, Andy Armstrong wrote:
-1
Many linux distros distribute binary packages ... the value of cc
will
be the compiler used to build the package.
I meant +1 to MakeMaker knowing whether the compiler is actually
available.
Oh ... ok ... wasn't clear from
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Curtis Jewell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
May not be MakeMaker, but would ExtUtils::CBuilder::have_compiler()
work?
It should, but it's not always installed.
Devel::Checklib is designed to make life easy by bundling itself into
an inc/ directory in the
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