On 25 Feb 2008, at 23:59, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Andy Armstrong wrote:
Is there a generally approved way for an XS module to test for the
existence of a C compiler before attempting to build?
MakeMaker uses ExtUtils::CBuilder->have_compiler() in it's tests.
It's worked well with no compl
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Curtis Jewell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> May not be MakeMaker, but would ExtUtils::CBuilder::have_compiler()
> work?
It should, but it's not always installed.
Devel::Checklib is designed to make life easy by bundling itself into
an inc/ directory in the distri
On 25 Feb 2008, at 18:42, Guy Hulbert wrote:
You still need to figure out whether to check 'ccversion' or
'gccversion' to when $Config{cc} can be either 'cc' or 'gcc' and also
how to find the '--version' string on windows ... but it looks doable.
I'm using Devel::CheckLib and relying on David
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 18:33 +, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> See also Windows, VMS, any other machine that doesn't have which.
... I was just looking at which %Config vars you need to check ... I
left VMS before I started perl and I havn't made it to Windows yet.
You could use something like:
sub
On 25 Feb 2008, at 18:30, Guy Hulbert wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:22 -0500, Guy Hulbert wrote:
something as
horrible as:
-x `which $Config{cc}`
plus:
`which $Config{cc} --version` =~ m/$Config{gccversion}/
seems to "work" for all the combinations below ... but I can imagine
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:25:33 +, "Nicholas Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:59:14PM +, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> > Is there a generally approved way for an XS module to test for the
> > existence of a C compiler before attempting to build?
>
> Personally I'd li
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:22 -0500, Guy Hulbert wrote:
> something as
> horrible as:
> -x `which $Config{cc}`
plus:
`which $Config{cc} --version` =~ m/$Config{gccversion}/
seems to "work" for all the combinations below ... but I can imagine
that there are situations where it might
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 18:12 +, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> > -1
> >
> > Many linux distros distribute binary packages ... the value of cc
> will
> > be the compiler used to build the package.
>
> I meant +1 to MakeMaker knowing whether the compiler is actually
> available.
Oh ... ok ... wasn't
On 25 Feb 2008, at 18:10, Guy Hulbert wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 16:29 +, Andy Armstrong wrote:
Personally I'd like such a test to be standard in MakeMaker,
because
I am
of the (old fashioned) opinion that if %Config says that there is a
C
compiler and there isn't one, then it's lying
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 16:29 +, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> > Personally I'd like such a test to be standard in MakeMaker,
> because
> > I am
> > of the (old fashioned) opinion that if %Config says that there is a
> C
> > compiler and there isn't one, then it's lying (and the instalation
> > is
On 25 Feb 2008, at 16:35, David Golden wrote:
Look at Devel::Checklib. If you don't select any libraries, I believe
it still checks for a compiler.
Oh, so it does. I looked at it, quickly scanned assert_lib and
concluded that it wouldn't work - but now I see that _findcc can die.
Cool, tha
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a generally approved way for an XS module to test for the
> existence of a C compiler before attempting to build?
Look at Devel::Checklib. If you don't select any libraries, I believe
it still checks for a com
On 25 Feb 2008, at 16:25, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:59:14PM +, Andy Armstrong wrote:
Is there a generally approved way for an XS module to test for the
existence of a C compiler before attempting to build?
Personally I'd like such a test to be standard in MakeMaker,
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:59:14PM +, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> Is there a generally approved way for an XS module to test for the
> existence of a C compiler before attempting to build?
Personally I'd like such a test to be standard in MakeMaker, because I am
of the (old fashioned) opinion th
Is there a generally approved way for an XS module to test for the
existence of a C compiler before attempting to build?
I'd like to avoid test failures that result from the lack of a
compiler without risking failing to build on a system that has an
obscure compiler that the build system wo
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