On 10 December 2012 14:59, Leon Timmermans <faw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:30 AM, demerphq <demer...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Ah, I think I found it. Apparently MakeMaker.pm has a hardcoded list >> of headers. >> >> The list is incomplete, it omits headers I would expect it to contain >> such as utf8.h and regcharclass.h. >> >> cheers >> Yves > > Worse yet, that makes it rather hard to deprecate headers. I have a > branch where two headers are essentially empty but can't be removed > because it breaks MakeMaker.
IMO it cannot continue to work like this. Each perl should include a manifest of such files, which MakeMaker should use. We cant be blocked in changing the headers included with Perl because of a hard coded list in old MakeMaker's. That way lies insanity. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
