Christian Soeller wrote:
> I have assembled a bit of code that tries to determine the location of
> 'typemap' in a more robust way, see below. Only tested on OS X 10.5.8
> so far. Would this be a viable replacement for the current logic in
> PP.pm (or does anybody know of a better way)? If so it needs testing
> on a bunch of platforms.
Looks reasonable to me. Does this replace the entire hierarchy
of directories searched for typemap or is the intent to generate
a valid $_rootdir?
At any rate, with a modified PP.pm, we could easily release
a developers snapshot of PDL to let the automated testers
kick the tires a bit to see what breaks.
--Chris
> Christian
>
> use File::Basename;
> use File::Spec;
>
> # so we get the system to pick up the path to the ExtUtils folder
> require ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
>
> my @res = grep /ExtUtils.*MakeMaker.pm/, keys %INC;
> my $dir;
> if (@res == 1) {
> $dir = dirname($INC{$res[0]});
> } else {
> die "couldn't find ExtUtils::MakeMaker in %INC hash";
> }
>
> $tmloc = File::Spec->catfile($dir,'typemap');
> if (-f $tmloc) {
> print "found typemap at $tmloc\n";
> } else {
> die "no typemap at $tmloc";
> }
>
>
> On 5/09/2009, at 10:13 PM, Benjamin Schuster-Boeckler wrote:
>
>> Yes, that did it! Thanks a lot, I don't think I'd have spotted that.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> On 5 Sep 2009, at 11:46, Christian Soeller wrote:
>>
>>> For what it's worth, I came across a similar problem the other day.
>>> Basically, the (probably flaky) way that PP.pm guesses at the
>>> location of typemap files seems to fail on OS X.
>>>
>>> The line
>>>
>>> my $_rootdir=$Config{installprivlib}."/ExtUtils/";
>>>
>>> is *not* finding typemap in any of the subdirs.
>>>
>>> I ended up hardcoding the location to the correct ExtUtils dir
>>> after finding it eventually:
>>>
>>> # try hardcoding for the moment
>>> my $_rootdir="/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/ExtUtils/";
>>>
>>> There should be a better (fully platform independent) way using one
>>> of the Config vars or using the value of @INC or some such, maybe
>>> somebody skilled in the art can enlighten us.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps,
>>>
>>> Christian
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