On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 16:29 +0000, Andy Armstrong wrote: > > Personally I'd like such a test to be standard in MakeMaker, > because > > I am > > of the (old fashioned) opinion that if %Config says that there is a > C > > compiler and there isn't one, then it's lying (and the instalation > > is broken, > > for a small value of broken) > > +1 for that. But it doesn't solve my immediate problem :)
-1 Many linux distros distribute binary packages ... the value of cc will be the compiler used to build the package. There can be good reasons to not install compilers ... ca 1990, building a ~ 100MB application could take out a sparc system for 2 days ... it wasn't me, though ;-). -- --gh
