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From:
Leon Timmermans
Date:
September 29, 2011 03:14
Subject:
Re: [rt.cpan.org #69318] EU:MM rejects necessary link library
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On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Michael G Schwern via RT
<bug-ExtUtils-MakeMaker@rt.cpan.org> wrote:
> ExtUtils::CBuilder would come into
> play here to do the compiling and linking.
>
> If we go down that route, I'd propose leaving LIBS as a legacy interface for
> backwards compatibility.  It will still search for working libraries, but it
> would use CBuilder instead of Liblist (a goal being to delete Liblist).  We'd
> then create a second key for "just use these libraries" and perhaps provide a
> method which can do the searching.

I'm not so sure ExtUtils::CBuilder really is in a better shape than
ExtUtils;:MakeMaker, specially on Windows.

Leon

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