On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 01:47:38PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> 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.
I was thinking along the lines of:
if (have_compiler($errmsg)) {
plan tests => 1;
} else {
plan skip_all => $errmsg;
}
sub have_compiler {
my $errmsg = "";
...
$_[0] = $errmsg if @_;
return $have_compiler;
}
where errmsg would be one of:
Unable to load ExtUtils::CBuilder
ExtUtils::CBuilder->new failed (this would be pretty unusual)
or Unable to find a compiler
