On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:54:10AM -0000, Iain Truskett wrote: > I was wondering if there was a nice recipe to determine > whether a C compiler is available. The various modules I looked at > that have both XS and pure perl implementations don't seem to > have any sort of standard method of determination. > > Runtime isn't a problem since the C based implementation would have a > different name from the Perl one, but I don't know a recommended way to > work out whether to bother compiling at 'make' time.
Filter::cpp has a reasonable heuristic. ExtUtils::Embed's tests probably have one, too. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Fuck with me and I will saw off your legs. http://www.unamerican.com/
