Re: Extending META.yml for 'requires a C/C++ compiler'

On Oct 8, 2006, at 10:26 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: An automatic error during "./Build dist" is the strong remedy. Aside from the fact that I am apparently unable to correctly configure my mail client, what is wrong with this approach? http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module.build/380 Fro

Re: Extending META.yml for 'requires a C/C++ compiler'

# from Marvin Humphrey # on Sunday 08 October 2006 08:13 pm: >An automatic error during "./Build dist" is the strong remedy. Aside from the fact that I am apparently unable to correctly configure my mail client, what is wrong with this approach? http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module.buil

Re: Extending META.yml for 'requires a C/C++ compiler'

It seems to me that if a given distro can be built either with a compiler or without one (e.g. Params::Validate), then the answer to "does it require a compiler" is a simple "no". Only if that "either" is across all platforms. If something, for example, was looking for /proc/ files on Linux, b

Re: Extending META.yml for 'requires a C/C++ compiler'

On Oct 8, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: Here's an alternative approach. Why make compiler dependencies special? Treat them like any other alien dependency. How do we do that? Wrap a module around it. ExtUtils::CBuilder is one example. I like. Adding ExtUtils::CBuilder as

Re: Extending META.yml for 'requires a C/C++ compiler'

A key of "needs_compiler" raises the question, "for what language?" "Compiler" does not necessarily mean "C compiler". PDL likes to have a Fortran compiler, Inline::Java needs a Java compiler, and so on. So the value would be a list of languages. # Any ol C compiler will do compiler => 'C

Re: Extending META.yml for 'requires a C/C++ compiler'

Here's an alternative approach. Why make compiler dependencies special? Treat them like any other alien dependency. How do we do that? Wrap a module around it. ExtUtils::CBuilder is one example. The various Alien modules are another. There's already existing wrapper modules for ssh, rsync

Re: feature: testfoo runs *.ft testfiles

# from Eric Wilhelm # on Sunday 24 September 2006 11:08 am: >ATM, I've just written this into our build >subclass, but would be happy to make it a patch if there's interest. ping. -- Turns out the optimal technique is to put it in reverse and gun it. --Steven Squyres (on challenges in interplane

Re: Missing obligingness in Module::Build

# from Ken Williams # on Saturday 07 October 2006 10:47 am: >Yeah, we should at the very least indicate that the user needs to   >install ExtUtils::CBuilder.  I'll make that change. Is it still up to the author to manually declare the ExtUtils::CBuilder build_requires dependency? Perhaps Module

Re: Extending META.yml for 'requires a C/C++ compiler'

# from Ron Savage # on Sunday 08 October 2006 03:49 pm: >o I am thinking of some procedure the author, perhaps, could use to > generate the info to add to the meta data, like so: >(1) Probe for compiler >(2) If found, remove compiler's directory from the path, and bugger > the consequences (if onl

Re: Extending META.yml for 'requires a C/C++ compiler'

On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 14:41:49 -0500, Ken Williams wrote: Hi Ken, and Adam Thanx for your comments. Having slept on it, I'd like now to recast this as a tragedy (joke) in 3.14159 acts... Part 1: The story so far I've tried to understand Adam's viewpoint, and here's what I assume happened: o I ha

Re: Extending META.yml for 'requires a C/C++ compiler'

On Oct 7, 2006, at 9:09 PM, Ron Savage wrote: Hi Ken, Adam I had a slight suspicion when I first posted that this might be a can of worms, and now I know :-(. Nah, it's not too bad. We can at least solve the problem I'm suggesting we solve, which I think was your original request too.