On Oct 19, 2007, at 6:00 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
Dave Golden and I have been hacking on Devel::CheckLib, which
should be
on a CPAN mirror near you soon. It's similar to Devel::CheckOS, in
that
it will let module authors specify dependencies which aren't just
other
perl modules - if they need, eg, libjpeg, then they can use this
module in
Makefile.PL / Build.PL to make it a pre-req, and if it's missing then
the CPAN testers will SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT IT and not annoy the
author.
Regarding the number of platforms supported: ExtUtils::CBuilder could
be a big help here, since basically its whole purpose is to translate
Config.pm into compiler & linker invocations. Maybe use it if it's
installed.
-Ken
