Tim writes: > I'm curious about the environment you're targeting > that doesn't have a compiler. Can you enlighten me?
Target is any one of the 3.5% of systems where DBI doesn't install for one reason or another (see cpantesters stats for latest stable build). > I'd happily take a patch to Makefile.PL that detects the lack of a > C compiler and then alters %opts so WriteMakefile() writes a Makefile > that won't try to compile DBI.xs etc etc. A missing C compiler is just one out of many things that could cause a build to fail. How about using the package manager's built-in support for this kind of thing to catch all scenarios? AFAICT, no matter how much energy is put into a solution that lives inside the system (= DBI cpan package), it will never be able to beat something that lives outside the system (such as a package manager).
