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Paul Marquess
Date:
October 9, 2009 13:21
Subject:
RE: IO-Compress Makefile.PL problem [was: Re: Special-casing IO-Compress as "XS", and Win32]
Message ID:
004801ca491e$04ae0380$0e0a0a80$@Marquess@ntlworld.com
From: Steve Hay [mailto:steve.m.hay@googlemail.com]
 
> 2009/10/8 Paul Marquess <Paul.Marquess@ntlworld.com>:
> > OK - just to double check, is this what we need in IO-Compress'
> Makefile.PL?
> >
> >     (
> >        $] >= 5.009 && $] <= 5.011000 && ! $ENV{PERL_CORE}
> >        ? (INSTALLPRIVLIB => '$(INSTALLARCHLIB)')
> >         : ()
> >     )
> 
> Yes, that's correct.

Good.

> 
> >
> > I'm in the middle of adding support for lzma/xz, but if it helps I'll
> sneak
> > out a new version of IO-Compress at the weekend that just does the
> > Makefile.PL change.
> 
> Cool.

Will try to get something together over the weekend.

> 
> >
> > One final point - I *think* those INSTALL*LIB symbols go way back
> into Perl
> > history. I have the compression modules working with all official
> versions
> > starting at 5.004 and don't want to break that. My pre-release
> regression
> > run will find any issues if there are any.
> 
> I also believe they're in 5.004. See:
> 
> http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/CHIPS/perl5.004/Configure
> 
> But anyway, it doesn't matter does it? Your code above is an empty
> list in the case of anything except 5.9.0 -> 5.11.0.

Duh! :-)


Paul


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