On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:51:39PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > I was a little surprised to see t/xs reporting "No compiler found to > test XS builds", till I saw that it is checking for Extutils::CBuilder. > Could that be added to build_recommends (or whatever the appropriate > tag is) in META.yml?
There is no equivalent in MakeMaker. Also ExtUtils::CBuilder is not yet reliable on all platforms. Its getting better but I don't trust that it will install everywhere. > And perhaps the skip message could mention the module? Perhaps > have_compiler could return different things for being unable to *look* for > a compiler vs. unable to *find* one? I looked into doing this but it would have required duplicating the "if we can't look for a compiler skip with this message, else if there is no compiler skip with this message" logic in the tests which needed a compiler and I didn't think it was worth it. If you can come up with something which avoids that I'll take it. But I'm not going to hold up 6.26 for it.
