On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:08:54PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> > There is no equivalent in MakeMaker.
>
> And you can't hand-alter the META.yml?
Yes but then I would have to turn off the META.yml auto-generation for good.
Also ExtUtils::CBuilder is an optional build requirement. Its not worth the
trouble.
I don't think the CPAN shells read the MakeMaker META.yml anyway.
> Easiest thing to do would be to have have_compiler itself return a string
> describing the problem.
$ perl -wle 'sub foo { return "strings are true" } print "Strings are true" if
foo()'
Strings are true
The classic problem of return value vs error value. How to convey both.
