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On 11/01/2011 06:27 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Eric Brine<ikegami@adaelis.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Brian Fraser<fraserbn@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Sorry, kind of having to skip reading this since my internet will be down >>> soonish, but something important I want to bring up is that >>> Unicode::LineBreak (and thus GCString) fails to build on non-cygwin Windows. >>> Please please someone fix that before including it in the core. >> >> About that, the author says >> [https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=65693]: >> >> I don't have any plan to support: >> * NMAKE + CL + LIB >> * CMD.EXE >> >> So people trying to build and to install this module on Windows should, of >> my limited knowledge, install: >> * Cygwin, or >> * MinGW and MSYS. >> >> Note that mingw alone doesn't help. The problem relates to the installation >> of the "Sombok" library, a dependency included in the distro. > > But who needs bash when you have Perl, and who needs autotools when > you have %Config? The config.h for sambok has 34 defines, most of > which are the usual suspects from Perl's configuration: > > <http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/NEZUMI/Unicode-LineBreak-2011.010_26/sombok/config.h.in> > > The Makefile.PL does not look very portable: > > <http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/NEZUMI/Unicode-LineBreak-2011.010_26/Makefile.PL> > > but nor does it look hugely evil, and --- perhaps more importantly -- > not huge. Revising it to generate a config.h for sambok based on what > Perl already knows about the current system may not be that bad. > > Of course the proof is in the pudding and lots of problems could come > to light after creating an alternate configuration method. But if > it's not doing anything wacky with IPC, permissions, filenames, and > other OS-specific nonsense, we shouldn't assume it's difficult to port > without trying. > I have not looked at the code nor the test suite. But, Unicode does furnish test suites for things like Line Breaking and Graphemes. The latter is part of unicore/TestProp.pl to test \X regex matching. (The relevant subroutine (and calls) is Test_X.Thread Previous | Thread Next