On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Kent Fredric <kentfred...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > XS concern is more "Make sure we don't have a circular dependency > inside perl bootstrap itself in case ExtUtils::Manifest is needed > before Cwd.pm is actually compiled" > I think the early toolchain list is in write_buildcustomize.pl: http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/write_buildcustomize.pl#l19 AFAICT, that makes the perl files in those lib directories available to miniperl directly in @INC in order to bootstrap the XS modules, and then the toolchain modules get build properly afterwards. But it's been a while since I looked really closely at the build order. I *think* that if you're talking test-time depndencies, all the XS stuff should be built by the time tests run, but someone would have to check that. David -- David Golden <x...@xdg.me> Twitter/IRC: @xdg
