Michael G Schwern wrote: > The major reason I've been avoiding putting any XS tests into MakeMaker > is being able to reliably determine if the user has a working compiler > and what that compiler is. Perl has it easy, the user obviously has a > C compiler, the one they're using to compile perl!
That's of course an easy assumption, but it's not true, esp. if you use most commercial unixes, which ship with perl but without a compiler by default.
