On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 05:57:12PM +0100, demerphq wrote: > I want to fix this. > > My current plan is to create a new module ExtUtils::PerlHeaders and > then move the list there. > > EU::MakeMaker can then require this module, and if it exists use it > for the header list. > > I am curious if anyone has any better suggestions or comments? > > The code involved is in lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm as the sub perldepend():
It's also in ExtUtils::MM_VMS as perldepend(). The intent is the same. The list is different. I noticed this problem a while back. I got some way towards addressing it - I added a routine Config::header_files() to give the list of header files. (So that's your ExtUtils::PerlHeaders already done) However, at the time I didn't have access to VMS, so couldn't fix up the forked code to do it in one place. However, since then, it's been suggested by someone (forget who, sorry) - why do we need a list? Given that the directory of installed header files is under our control, why not just glob it, and depend on everything that is <*.h> ? This seems a simpler suggestion than having to maintain an explicit list. Nicholas Clark
