On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:58:08AM +0000, Tim Bunce wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:01:05PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > I need someone who understands the XS part of MakeMaker to comment on > > these two patches. I don't understand that part of MakeMaker. > > I've not time to look properly but...
Thanks for taking the time, Tim. > > XS builds with INSTALLARCHLIB changed. > > http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.makemaker/1512 > > Seems reasonable. Although the message says "attached is a patch > that fixes it for Unix-style OSs" the patch relates to a block > executed only if ($^O eq 'netbsd'). But that makes the patch more > narrow in scope and thus safer to apply. Oh, true. > > Something about linker portability. > > http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.makemaker/1498 > > Dunno. Certainly the perlxstut portion quoted isn't portable. > But I don't know what CC_PRE_TARGET is there for and I worry that > AR_STATIC_ARGS is no longer used anywhere but might be used by > someone. (Being able to grep all cpan for something like > AR_STATIC_ARGS might be interesting.) http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/grep_cpan :) Works well inconjunction with a local minicpan. *grind grind grind grind grind grind grind grind* -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Cheating is often more efficient. - Seven of Nine
