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In order to save time building and testing Perl, I use the -Dnoextensions=... option in Configure to exclude over a dozen XS extensions when building Perl. These include extensions I don't need (e.g., Sys/Syslog), don't want (e.g., Text/Soundex) or that aren't supported on my current architecture (e.g., IPC/SysV). I wanted the same exclusion capability for non-XS extensions so I created the attached patch. It allows both the -Dnoextensions=... and -Donlyextensions=... options in Configure to work for XS as well as non-XS extensions. Using this patch, I now exclude over 50 non-XS modules from my Perl builds. This gains me a 25% (5.12.x) to 35% (blead) reduction in the time needed to build, test and install Perl. (In blead, for example, from 4 hrs. down to 2.5). Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. I'll submit this patch 'officially' following the v5.13.7 release.Thread Next