On 19 February 2013 20:00, Nicholas Clark <n...@ccl4.org> wrote: > 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.
Sounds great. I did some rudimentary poking but couldnt find the right dir... Do you happen to know the config var name? Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
