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* Chas. Owens (chas.owens@gmail.com) [110831 19:28]:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:47, Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sounds like a fine plan, but it would require some effort. Currently
> > POSIX.xs can piggyback on perl's detection of various system functions
> > and headers, if made standalone it needs to duplicate that.
> > Fortunately, it's mostly something that has to be done only once.
> Does that information live past the build phase of perl? If not, it
> probably should. Then other things could piggyback off of it.
According to Merijn, all configuration information for Perl-core, so
also everything needed for the POSIX module, is available via Config.pm
(see Config_heavy.pl)
He offers to add any library test to the configuration phase of Perl
itself... but it might be better to move all checks which are only
needed for POSIX.pm into the dual-lifed POSIX itself: that would be
more flexible when we extend the support with a few hundred more
functions.
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