On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Sisyphus <sisyph...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Oswald"
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>> It looks to me like the 'if( $config{cc} eq 'gcc' ) .... " code is
>> falling through to the else clause that sets $cc_guess to 'CC', and in
>> this case probably shouldn't be.
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> Yes - looking a bit more closely, I see that these failing reports show that
> $Config{cc} is set to 'cc', not 'gcc'.
> They also report a setting for $Config{gccversion} which, I guess, indicates
> that 'cc' is really 'gcc' and that 'g++' would be the C++ compiler that
> needs to be invoked.That code was added to Makefile.PL in version 0.23 way back in 2003. I'm sure it was added for a reason. I'm thinking that rather than second-guess the reason, I should probably figure out how to make the test more accurate or fine grained. There must have been a reason that CC was put in there as a fall-through default for Solaris... we just happen to be falling through in a case where it is probably inappropriate to do so. But if I remove that test and remove CC as an option I'll probably break some other Solaris install. For more insight I'm going to have to hear from someone who understands Solaris's unique needs throughout the past decade. Good luck with that! ;) Dave -- David Oswald daosw...@gmail.com
