On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:35:17PM -0800, Jan Dubois wrote:
> This would be trivial to change. ActivePerl already determines the value of
> $Config{cc} dynamically. It sets it to 'gcc' if cl.exe can't be found on the
> PATH but gcc.exe is there.
Isn't that kinda dodgy? XS modules expect to be built with the same
toolchain as perl was, and the way they figure that out is by looking at
%Config. If you mix and match compilers, Bad Things can happen.
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