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> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 03:19:46PM +0100, Aldo Calpini wrote:
> > I don't have GNU cpp installed, so Filter::cpp is silently failing.
> > agreed, this requirement is mentioned in the README (that I did not
> > read till now :-), but maybe it would be more appropriate to *warn*
> > or *croak* at runtime if cpp.exe is not found...
>
> Yes, that's how I expected it would work. Could a "which cpp.exe"
> equivalent be out of the question? For Win32 or otherwise. The
> non-Win32 just plows ahead if it sees cpp in Config.pm without
> checking to see if its actually installed, leaving out the (more
> common than you'd think) case of Perl (from a binary package) without
> a C compiler installed.
>
> I'll send along a patch to do just that.
I've already modified Filter::cpp to check the path for the existence on
cpp.exe when running on MSWin32. Version 1.22 of the Filters has just been
uploaded to CPAN with this change. I would appreciate testing by both
MSWin32 people who do have cpp.exe and some who don't.
Paul
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