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On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:30:01AM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:51:39PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > I was a little surprised to see t/xs reporting "No compiler found to > > test XS builds", till I saw that it is checking for Extutils::CBuilder. > > Could that be added to build_recommends (or whatever the appropriate > > tag is) in META.yml? > > There is no equivalent in MakeMaker. And you can't hand-alter the META.yml? > Also ExtUtils::CBuilder is not yet reliable on all platforms. Its getting > better but I don't trust that it will install everywhere. > > > And perhaps the skip message could mention the module? Perhaps > > have_compiler could return different things for being unable to *look* for > > a compiler vs. unable to *find* one? > > I looked into doing this but it would have required duplicating the > "if we can't look for a compiler skip with this message, else if there is no > compiler skip with this message" logic in the tests which needed a compiler > and I didn't think it was worth it. If you can come up with something which > avoids that I'll take it. Easiest thing to do would be to have have_compiler itself return a string describing the problem. > But I'm not going to hold up 6.26 for it. Good. Please don't.Thread Previous | Thread Next