On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 09:37:00AM -0400, David Golden wrote:
> The approach in Params::Validate (and borrowed for version.pm) uses
> ExtUtils::CBuilder, if installed, and otherwise tries manually against
> the configured CC, rather than make:
>
> > system( "$Config{cc} -o test$Config{obj_ext} test.c" )
>
> Which, as a fall-back, is hopefully a bit more portable. Frankly, I'm
> not sure why it isn't just "$Config{cc} test.c", but I'm not very
> compiler savvy.
The simplest reason that springs to mind is "what was the output file called,
so that I can delete it?" I don't think that there's a standard across
operating systems.
Nicholas Clark
