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On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 05:56:30AM -0400, Christian Walde via RT wrote: > <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69318 > > > Weird, RT didn't mail me your last reply. Anyhow: > > Note ahead: I know almost nothing about C. It's been almost a decade > since i last wrote a C program. > > > I think the general way to accomplish that is to just try to compile a > > small program. Isn't that what Configure does? > > No idea. Completely outside of my expertise. > > > I wonder if delegating to ExtUtils::CBuilder would be sufficient. I'd > > love to see all that nasty Liblist code go away. > > Again, I have no idea and do not know the module. Though, casual > looking reveals: > > "However, it is not intended as a general cross-platform interface to > all your C building needs." > > > Alternatively... do we need to go through that process at all? > > Good question! Why indeed. I personally have no clue why that is > necessary. I can only guess at it being meant to make it possible for > authors to indicate multiple libraries with EUMM choosing the one that > actually exists. > > But that's a wild guess. Which corresponds to the actual documentation: =item LIBS An anonymous array of alternative library specifications to be searched for (in order) until at least one library is found. E.g. 'LIBS' => ["-lgdbm", "-ldbm -lfoo", "-L/path -ldbm.nfs"] Mind, that any element of the array contains a complete set of arguments for the ld command. So do not specify 'LIBS' => ["-ltcl", "-ltk", "-lX11"] See ODBM_File/Makefile.PL for an example, where an array is needed. If you specify a scalar as in 'LIBS' => "-ltcl -ltk -lX11" MakeMaker will turn it into an array with one element. =cut Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next