David -
First, I think this is a good idea: it'd be more robust than hard-coded
library flags. Second, you'll almost certainly have to use per-compiler
verbosity flags and output parsing. For example, Microsoft's Visual Studio
will almost certainly display its output differently than gcc. LLVM's c
I just had a thought on all the hurdles we're going through on trying
to guess the proper default libraries for a given platform.
This may be totally wrong, but here goes:
Within Makefile.PL we're already test-compiling a C++ program to
detect whether headers should have a .h extension or not. Wh
