"David Golden" <xda...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:09 AM, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 06:55:00AM -0500, David Golden wrote:
>> > There's a debate at the moment on #p5p about whether it's an error to
>> have
>> > $Config{cc} and not have the named compiler. If so, every AS perl is
>> > "broken".
>>
>> As is perl as distributed by Debian, Redhat and no doubt others, as you
>> can install them without installing a compiler. You can even install a
>> *different* compiler, such as icc or Sun's cc instead of gcc, or gcc
>> instead of MIPSpro on Irix, or ...
>>
>
> Here's the Pod for Config on the subject (Nicholas Clark cited it to me on
> IRC):
>
> "cc"
> From cc.U:
>
> This variable holds the name of a command to execute a C compiler
> which can resolve multiple global references that happen to have
> the same name. Usual values are "cc" and "gcc". Fervent "ANSI"
> compilers may be called "c89". "AIX" has xlc.
>
> So technically, one could say that installing a perl without a compiler
> should clear the $Config{cc} setting, as there is no command to execute a C
> compiler.
>
> Practically speaking, this is night impossible, so the IRC discussion
> concluded that there was little to be done about it.
>
Other than changing the documentation of Config.pm?
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