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On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 05:58:05PM +0300, Leon Timmermans wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > > Yes. Tony Cook had an experiment, and (for example) right now you can't > > use ExtUtils::CBuilder with miniperl because it wants to load IO, and > > > > Can't load module IO, dynamic loading not available in this perl. > > > > So, sure, one has to continue not to build *IO* with ExtUtils::CBuilder > > (and DynaLoader), and one would need to encode a dependency to ensure that > > a parallel build completes lib/auto/IO/IO.$dlext before starting to use > > anything that has a "build_requires" on IO, but the infrastructure to do > > all of that stuff exists already. > > > > It's mostly a case of knowing what the bits needed are, where they are > > (or finding them), and trying stuff out until it works. > > In this particular case, the easiest thing would be to make > ExtUtils::CBuilder not use IO. Like M::B, it uses it because it was > the easiest way to use lexical filehandles before 5.6. Since we're not > supporting 5.005 anymore, we can just rip it out and be done with that > issue. Sorry, forgot to say. That's what I thought. But I'd already looked and seen that it uses File::Temp, an I know that *that* uses IO too. I'm not sure how deep the rabbit hole goes on this one, and hence where the trade offs lie. Which is why I think it's going to take hacking and experimentation, not just brainstorming. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next