Maybe that would explain what I've seen
I've had that "mess" for several years now.
I started with 5.5.3 and everything worked fine.
failed with 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 but works fine with 5.8.0
go figure :)
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Tassilo von Parseval wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:15:17PM +0100 Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 03:23:18PM -0400, Marc Mettes wrote:
>
> > > In my XS module, I need to make numerous enum's available to perl
> > > and I'm looking for recommendations on which option to chose to
> > > implement them.
>
> [...]
>
> > If you want an example of how this works, all of the core modules that were
> > using "constant" code generated by the old h2xs have been re-implemented using
> > the new strategy in 5.8.0, as does Time::HiRes on CPAN.
> > (Actually Time::HiRes is not a good example as it does lots of other stuff
> > in its Makefile.PL, and it generates the list of constants with non-standard
> > defaults)
> >
> > Admittedly, I'm biased, because I did the h2xs re-write and wrote the
> > associated support module, ExtUtils::Constant (in 5.8.0, and on CPAN)
>
> And I'd like to add that ever since I first heard about
> ExtUtils::Constant (which is automatically invoked if you use the -b
> switch on a recent h2xs) I never looked back. Nicholas did an ingenious
> job there...it fixes all of the old problems that were: a) an
> unmaintainable muddle of auto-generated C code and b) the fact that this
> autogenerated code was even erroneous...some constants weren't properly
> handled. Correcting that was almost impossible due to a).
>
> Furthermore, it does not add a dependency in that you don't need
> ExtUtils::Constant on machines installing your module.
>
> BTW: When you have a lot of enums, you should consider using the freshly
> released perl5.8.1-RC1 (or just the h2xs of that). Older h2xs' ignored
> enums...after my patches (shamelessly plugged) they handle those, too.
>
> Tassilo
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