> On Jan 31, 2020, at 9:50 AM, gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> wrote: > > In my understanding, ExtUtils::HasCompiler is there for situations > where the presence of a compiler is not guaranteed.
Right. If I don't do this then I get all sorts of testing failure reports about systems which don't have a compiler. > > In Debian, we know that we have a compiler when building packages, so > the check doesn't bring any advantage, and unless I'm missing > something we could just patch it out. > Given your expertise and control over the build environment, I think its perfectly reasonable for you to disable the compiler check and let it move on. I don't think it makes sense for me to add an exception to Makefile.PL but if you have any ideas, patches are welcome. https://github.com/toddr/YAML-Syck <https://github.com/toddr/YAML-Syck>. Possibly we could enhance ExtUtils::HasCompiler to look for a environment variable that indicates that it is in a build system and coerces it to pass without a check. I'm speaking with the author about this now. Todd
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