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From:
Steve Hay
Date:
June 19, 2013 11:15
Subject:
RE: [perl #118537] Add non-XS extensions to known_extensions
Message ID:
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Nicholas Clark (via RT) wrote on 2013-06-19:
> Right now we have the wonderfully inconsistent situation (for 
> Configure-generated config.sh) of
> 
> dynamic_ext:        built dynamically linked XS modules static_ext:     
>    built statically linked XS modules nonxs_ext:          built
> pure-Perl modules (from ext/, dist/ and cpan/) extensions:        
> "$dynamic_ext $static_ext $nonxs_ext" known_extensions:   *just* the XS
> modules shipped in ext/, dist/ and cpan/
> 
> ie "extensions" is typically much larger than "known_extensions"
> 
> Moreover, I believe that we're inconsistent between platforms, in that 
> on Win32, "known_extensions" has everything.
> 


I've just checked and 'known_extensions' doesn't have everything on Windows. It actually has the same bizarre situation that you describe for *nix, which has bugged me before. I would be in favour of changing it if nobody can think of anything that would be broken by it.

FYI, I've attached the output of the relevant "perl -V:..." options in a default build, and again in an ALL_STATIC=define build, on Windows.

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