On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:00 PM, 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.
Omissions are probably maintenance failures. The one addition I can think of at the moment is vmsish.h. > 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. You might be thinking of: <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196426.htmll>
