Would it be safe to make ExtUtils::ParseXS read only ONE typemap from ExtUtils itself? If it finds a typemap from e.g. perl5 it will now read it after the correct one With one debugging line added: $ xsubpp Syck.xs > /dev/null ####### Opening /pro/lib/perl5/5.12.2/ExtUtils/typemap ####### Opening ../../lib/ExtUtils/typemap The last one is from a perl5.004 installation that installed one level higher than 5.005 and on: $ ls ../../lib{/*,}/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.00503/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.13.5/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.00504/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.13.6/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.10.0/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.13.7/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.10.1/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.6.0/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.11.0/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.6.1/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.11.1/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.6.2/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.11.2/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.8.0/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.11.3/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.8.1/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.11.4/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.8.2/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.11.5/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.8.3/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.12.0/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.8.4/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.12.1/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.8.5/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.12.2/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.8.6/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.13.0/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.8.7/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.13.1/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.8.8/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.13.2/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.8.9/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.13.3/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/ExtUtils/typemap ../../lib/5.13.4/ExtUtils/typemap --- ../../lib/5.13.7/ExtUtils/ParseXS.pm 2010-11-21 10:28:13.000000000 +0100 +++ /pro/lib/perl5/5.12.2/ExtUtils/ParseXS.pm 2010-11-22 08:33:26.368001586 +0100 @@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ sub process_file { push @tm, standard_typemap_locations(); + my $seen_eu_tm = 0; foreach my $typemap (@tm) { next unless -f $typemap ; # skip directories, binary files etc. @@ -149,6 +150,7 @@ sub process_file { unless -T $typemap ; open(TYPEMAP, $typemap) or warn ("Warning: could not open typemap file '$typemap': $!\n"), next; + $typemap =~ m{/ExtUtils/}i and $seen_eu_tm++ and next; my $mode = 'Typemap'; my $junk = "" ; my $current = \$junk; -->8--- -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using 5.00307 through 5.12 and porting perl5.13.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23 and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.1, 11.0 .. 11.3 and AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/